Upgrading vCenter Orchestrator

If you rolled out vCO before the vApp was released, the upgrade path is a bit different than “click here to upgrade”. Here’s the steps:

  1. Snapshot/Clone or otherwise backup vCO and your database.
  2. Launch the VCO installer (install media \ vCenter-Server\vCO):
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  3. Click upgrade:
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  4. Next:
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  5. Change the SSL Keys (up to you):
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  6. Next
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  7. Next
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  8. Click install, get some coffee:
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  9. Load the vCO configuration page, select Database, Upgrade:
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  10. Start the vCO Service and you are done!