VMware Cloud Director Upgrade History

Hi everyone and welcome to a very short post. This post is going to cover something that I was asked today. The question I have received was “Do you know the upgrade history of our VMware Cloud Director enviroment?”

You can find the upgrade steps in the following link https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Director/10.3/VMware-Cloud-Director-Install-Configure-Upgrade-Guide/GUID-BE64E6B6-EEB5-40FD-8797-45EF62854C06.html

Note: The following steps apply only for the appliance deployment.

To troubleshoot the upgrade, there is a file you can check to monitor the upgrade process.

/opt/vmware/var/log/vami/updatecli.log

In the file you can find the following information that shows from which version you are upgrading and the destination version.

Said that, I have created a single liner

more /opt/vmware/var/log/vami/updatecli.log | grep "to version"

The result of that one liner is the complete upgrade history. Keep in mind that if you delete this file or you redeploy a cell for any reason, that information won’t be available.

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