Performing an Orchestrated Upgrade
A specific use case for baseline groups is the orchestrated upgrade. For an orchestrated upgrade, you run a host baseline group and a VM/VA baseline group sequentially to help automate the process of moving an organization's environment fully into VMware vSphere 6.0. Quite simply, it upgrades your hosts and then your VMs in one job.
Consider this sequence of events:
- You create a host baseline group that combines a host upgrade baseline with a dynamic host patch baseline to apply the latest updates.
- You create a VM baseline group that combines two different VM upgrade baselines—the VMware Tools upgrade baseline and the VM hardware upgrade baseline.
- You schedule the host baseline group to execute, followed at some point by the VM baseline group.
- The host baseline group upgrades the hosts from ESXi 6.0/6.5 to ESXi 6.7 and installs all applicable patches and updates.
- The VM baseline group upgrades VMware Tools and then upgrades the VM hardware...
