Upgrading Telco Cloud Automation using SSH

Post category:Telco / Telco Cloud Automation / VMware
Post published:September 20, 2023
Post last modified:September 20, 2023

In this article we are going to explore another way to update Telco Cloud Automation Appliance using command line.

Upgrade Steps

Do this for every TCA-M and TCA-CP
SSH to TCA / TCA-CP via admin
```
ssh admin@TCA_IP
```
Provide admin password

Browse to /tmp and download the upgrade bundle

cd /tmp

Replace Build Link accordingly

curl -O <UPGRADE_BUNDLE_LINK>

Or SCP the builds to /tmp manually
Untar the upgrade bundle

tar -xvzf /tmp/<UPGRADE_BUNDLE_FILE>

Switch to root to upgrade

su

Provide root password

cd /tmp

Run upgrade

./vsm-upgrade.sh image/<DIST_FILE_NAME_BEGINS_WITH_VMware-Telco-Cloud-Automation>

Upgrade procedure takes around 5 minutes.
Post that system will automatically reboot
Give the system another 5 minutes for all the services to come back online

Ashutosh Dixit

I am currently working as a Senior Technical Support Engineer with VMware Premier Services for Telco. Before this, I worked as a Technical Lead with Microsoft Enterprise Platform Support for Production and Premier Support. I am an expert in High-Availability, Deployments, and VMware Core technology along with Tanzu and Horizon.