VMWare Upgrade Prerequisites

Launch a new VM instance in VMware using the ExaVault v18.x VMWare OVA file. For best results, we recommend that you deploy the image from your Content Libraries in vSphere.

Once the new VM is created, select the new Virtual Machine and choose Edit Settings.

Change the CPU and Memory settings to match the previous configuration. Normally this is 4 vCPU and 16 GB of memory.

Confirm that the VM Options settings are set correctly. The Guest OS Family must be set to Linux, and the Guest OS Version to Debian GNU/Linux 6 (64bit).

Expand the root disk for your new VM to match the size of the root disk from the previous VM.

Copy or restore your secondary disk into this new VM instance. If you are copying, first power off the source VM to prevent changes to the source data disk.

Power on the virtual machine and login as admin with the password DefaultPassChangeMe1! .

Change the hostname to match your current hostname using the command:

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname <existing_hostname>

Use the passwd command to change the password for the admin user.

Create and apply the appropriate netplan configuration in /etc/netplan/.

Netplan example configuration

Use the example template below to create a network configuration for your environment.

network:
  version: 2
  ethernets:
    ens192:
      dhcp4: no
      addresses:
      - 192.168.0.5/24
      nameservers:
        addresses: [8.8.8.8, 4.2.2.2]
      routes:
      - to: 0.0.0.0/0
        via: 192.168.0.1
      routing-policy:
      - from: 192.168.0.1/24

After the network configuration has been set, apply the changes:

sudo netplan apply