[Orchestrator] Use VUM to Upgrade the vCO vApp

Incase you have more than a small hand full of vCO vApps handy, you can use vApp functionality in VUM to upgrade vCO. You’ll need to do the following to get that going: Create the vApp Baseline Creating a vApp baseline works much like creating other baselines. On the home page of your vSphere client
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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: Snapshot/Clone or otherwise backup vCO and your database. Launch the VCO installer (install media \ vCenter-Server\vCO): Click upgrade: Next: Change the SSL Keys (up to you): Next Next Click install,
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Downloading & Installing the vSphere Update 1 Client For Windows 7

As we pointed out earlier in the week, vSphere Update 1 now supplies a Windows 7 compatible client, one that works out of the box. However, There are some folks who have not jumped into Update 1 yet, but still need to manage vSphere hosts. Not a problem you might think, and try to hop
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