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Upgrading Avaya Aura® 6.x applications in a customer-provided Virtualized Environment to Avaya Aura Release 7.0.1

About this task

The section provides the procedure to migrate Avaya Aura® 6.x applications to Avaya Aura® Release 7.0.1:

Before you begin

Read the Avaya Aura® application upgrade and migration considerations.

Procedure

  1. Using the backup and restore capability of the application, create a full backup of the Avaya Aura® 6.x application.

    For a System Platform-based application, additionally, create a System Platform backup to get back the system to the original state during disaster recovery.

  2. Record the following network parameters for the 6.x application:
    • All IP addresses

    • Subnetwork mask

    • Gateway

    • DNS

    • NTP Server

    You can use the information later in situations such as performing disaster recovery.

  3. Using vSphere Client, perform the following to prepare the existing Virtualized Environment for upgrade:
    1. Shutdown the Release 6.x virtual machine if sufficient disk resources are available to run the Avaya Aura® 6.x and 7.0 applications.

      The new and existing applications cannot see each other on the network during and after the deployment of the Release 7.0.1 application.

    2. Delete the existing Avaya Aura® 6.x application image on the customer-provided VMware host to create sufficient disk resources to deploy the Avaya Aura® Release 7.0.1 application.
  4. Using vSphere Client, deploy the new Avaya Aura® Release 7.0.1 application OVA and provide the required application-level configuration settings for using the existing customer-provided VMware tools to the VMware host.

    For more information to deploy the application, see Deploying <Avaya Aura application> on VMware. You can also deploy OVA files to a customer Virtualized Environment solution by using the Solution Deployment Manager client.

  5. With the patch installation capacity of the application, install the Release 7.0.1 patch for the application.

    You can use the command line interface or the System Manager Solution Deployment Manager in Virtualized Environment solution if System Manager Solution Deployment Manager is configured to support software upgrades. For example, setting up the software library and user settings to gain access to PLDS.

  6. With the restore capability of the application, restore the backup of the application that you created in Step 1.
  7. Verify that the application is running Release 7.0.1.
  8. For each application that you installed, log in to the command line interface and install the Avaya Secure Gateway (ASG) file.
  9. With the backup and restore capability, create a backup of the Avaya Aura® Release 7.0.1 application.