Dell EMC Avamar for VMware 19.7 User Guide

Upgrading proxies

This section discusses how to upgrade proxies that run supported releases of the Avamar software.

Avamar 19.4 and later includes an upgrade to the SLES 12 SP5 operating system, including for VMware proxies. This upgrade replaces the previous SLES 11 and SLES 12 operating systems. Avamar Release Notes contains important information about this upgrade, including prerequisites that you must meet.

You cannot upgrade VMware proxies from one operating system to another by using the ISO file. Instead, use the Proxy Deployment Manager (PDM), which automatically:

1. Removes the proxies from the Avamar server
2. Powers off the same proxies on the vCenter Server
3. Redeploys the replacement Avamar 19.7 proxies

Upgrading Avamar proxies provides more information.

You can manually remove the proxies on the vCenter Server according to your requirement.

If you manually deployed a proxy for an earlier release, with a different version of the SLES OS, you must record the required information, remove the proxy, and then use the PDM to deploy a new proxy. Upgrading older or manually deployed Avamar proxies provides more information.

The following topics provide instructions that use Avamar Administrator because a few of the previous Avamar releases do not support the Avamar Web User Interface (AUI). Where available, you can use the PDM within the AUI instead. Deploying proxies using Proxy Deployment Manager from AUI provides more information.