In-Place upgrade
This section provides a high-level overview on how to adopt the In-Place strategy to upgrade products in the production environment. This upgrade requires minimal additional hardware and other resources. You can spread the upgrade across several periods of maintenance time and there is no need to track data changes during the upgrade process. However, the production environment needs downtime.
After you upgrade the products using the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management installer, you might need to perform manual tasks, such as migrating a database, for certain products to complete the upgrade. To complete upgrading products in zone 1, complete the following tasks:
See the following BMC Communities video (8:01) about best practices for upgrading BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management in a production environment using the in-place approach.
Before you begin
To use the In-Place strategy to upgrade products in a production environment
- Review the appropriate upgrade requirements in Preparing-for-upgrades.
- Take a snapshots of your VM or backup your physical machine on which the product is installed.
- Take a database backup of the product itself and back up the databases.
- Put the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management production environment in maintenance mode.
- Copy the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management installer on the installer host.
- Make sure that there are no processes running and that the BMC BladeLogic Remote System Call Daemon (RSCD) Agent default port is not blocked on the target host.
- Launch the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management installer and integrate the products.
- Upgrade the products in the following order:
- Run data migration.
- (BMC Server Automation only) Perform the manual tasks required to complete the upgrade.
Where to go from here
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