Upgrading Operations for Logs through Suite Lifecycle
Recently VMware has announced that there are few vulnerabilities which are affecting VMware Aria Operations for Logs which are documneted under VMSA
As per VMSA , we need to upgrade VMware Aria Operations for Logs ( formerly vRLI ) to version 8.12.
Remember this resolves another certificate issue documented under KB91441
Procedure
VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.12 is supported along with VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.12
Which means before uprgading VMware Aria Operations for Logs , we should upgrade VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to 8.12
I have documented how to upgrade Suite Lifecycle to 8.12 in this blog post . This descrived CD Rom method. I'll share screenshots from Online method. It's pretty much same just the source is different.
After a while upgrade is done. vRSLCM is now VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
We will refer the new VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle as Suite Lifecycle to make it much easier
If we go to Product Support Pack pane under settings , we can see that the new policy 8.12.0.0 which is the out of the box policy which comes with upgrade adds support for
VMware Aria Operations 8.12
VMware Aria Automation 8.12
VMware Aria Orchestrator 8.12
VMware Aria Automation Config 8.12
VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.12
Now , let's browse our environment and see what all products we have
Note: Even though the version of the managed products are still old for example verison 8.10 and below, we still show VMware Aria Branding as it's difficult to maintain both vRealize and VMware Aria branding together.
No matter what version of the product is available, we will show only the new "VMware Aria" branding once we uprgade Suite Lifecycle to version 8.12
Now let's uprgade our existing vRLI environment whcih call in the UI as Logs
Let's begin with downloading the binary and wait till it's completed.
Once done , let's go to the product and perform inventory sync
Inventory Sync is now completed. Let's now start VMware Aria Operations for Logs upgrade to version 8.12
Just performed inventory sync so i'll directly proceed with upgrade
Ensure appropriate binary is mapped
Take and Retain Snapshot
Validations Successful
Review and Submit the request
It took 24 minutes end to end to complete the uprgade process , remember this includes
This is a single node VMware Aria Operations for Logs
Diving into logs a bit....
Important Logs to Monitor
/storage/core/loginsight/var/upgrade.log
/var/log/vrlcm/vmware_vrlcm.log****** Reference: /storage/core/loginsight/var/upgrade.log ******
******Certificiate , Version and Disk Space checks are performed ******
2023-04-23 00:41:51,607 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Certificate verified: VMware-vRealize-Log-Insight.cert: C = US, ST = California, L = Palo Alto, O = "VMware, Inc."
error 18 at 0 depth lookup:self signed certificate
OK
2023-04-23 00:41:51,629 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Signature of the manifest validated: Verified OK
2023-04-23 00:41:52,466 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Current version is 8.10.2-21145187 and upgrade version is 8.12.0-21618456. Version Check successful!
2023-04-23 00:41:52,467 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Available Disk Space at /tmp: 3402510336
2023-04-23 00:41:52,467 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Disk Space Check successful!
2023-04-23 00:41:52,467 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Available Disk Space at /storage/core: 468438704128
2023-04-23 00:41:52,467 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Disk Space Check successful!
2023-04-23 00:41:52,467 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Available Disk Space at /storage/var: 19037392896
2023-04-23 00:41:52,467 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Disk Space Check successful!
2023-04-23 00:41:52,467 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Loading eula license successful!
2023-04-23 00:41:52,468 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Done!
2023-04-23 00:41:53,409 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Certificate verified: VMware-vRealize-Log-Insight.cert: C = US, ST = California, L = Palo Alto, O = "VMware, Inc."
error 18 at 0 depth lookup:self signed certificate
OK
PAK file is verified
2023-04-23 00:41:53,422 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Signature of the manifest validated: Verified OK
2023-04-23 00:41:53,658 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Current version is 8.10.2-21145187 and upgrade version is 8.12.0-21618456. Version Check successful!
2023-04-23 00:41:53,658 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Available Disk Space at /tmp: 3402534912
2023-04-23 00:41:53,658 loginsight-pak-upgrade INFO Disk Space Check successful!
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