Upgrading VMware NSX Edge

The NSX Edge services gateways can be upgraded any time after the NSX Manager upgrade is completed. However, DLR cannot be upgraded until the NSX controllers and host clusters have been upgraded.

Note

Starting in NSX 6.2.5, resource reservation is carried out at the time of the NSX Edge upgrade. When vSphere HA is enabled on a cluster having insufficient resources, the upgrade operation may fail owing to vSphere HA constraints being violated.

Getting ready

You should be logged into the vSphere Web Client as an enterprise administrator or NSX administrator.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to upgrade NSX Edge:

1. From the vSphere Web Client, navigate to Home | Networking & Security | Installation | NSX Edges. Select the desired NSX Edge and click Actions or right click and select Upgrade Version:

When prompted, click Yes to proceed with the upgrade.

2. Upon successful upgrade, verify that the NSX Edge instance has its status as Deployed and the Version column has the new...