Foundation Core upgrade from Ops Manager

I have uninstalled a few products in my homelab. I basically left the NSX system, router VM and Ops Manager running. My vCenter look like this:

vCenter showing running VM's

The Ops Manager only has the Bosh Director tile.

Ops Manager page showing only Bosh Director tile

Clean slate! My plan was to install the Elastic Application Runtime tile. Before doing that, I upgraded the Ops Manager to the latest version 3.3.2.

To upgrade the Ops Manager, I exported the installation settings first and saved the file in my local. This file contains all the information of the current Ops Manager installation, and will be imported into the new one later.

Export Installation Settings

I downloaded the newest Ops Manager OVA (v3.3.2) from the Broadcom Download site.

In vCenter, I powered off the current Ops Manager VM. I then right-clicked on my only resource pool item (RP01), and then selected “Deploy OVF Template”. I upload the OVA that I just downloaded:

Deploy OVF Template

I entered name of the new VM as “ops-manager-3.3.2” accordingly, and selected the “pcf_vms” folder as location.

Select a name and folder

I selected the only resource pool “RP01” as destination compute resource.

Select a compute resource

In Review Details, I confirmed that everything looks good so far and clicked Next.

Review details

Selected the only datastore I have as the storage.

Select storage

Selected “LS1.1” as the destination network. This is the same network set in the current Ops Manager VM.

Select networks

In Customize template page, I entered the same settings as the current Ops Manager VM.

Customize template

In Ready to complete page, I verified all the details and then clicked “Finish”.

Ready to complete

The OVA started deploying.

OVA deployment status

After around 8 minutes, the deployment completed!

OVA deployment status shows that it completed

Powered on the new Ops Manager VM, and waited for it to get an IP address assigned.

Ops Manager powered on and IP address assigned

Navigated to the Ops Manager URL (https://opsmgr.deephackmode.io), and was greeted with a Welcome page.

Ops Manager Welcome page

Clicked “Import Existing Installation”, and uploaded the “installation.zip” file I saved earlier. Also, obviously I entered the Decryption Passphrase, which is a must.

Import the installation.zip file

Clicked the “Import” button, and it started processing the file.

Waiting for Ops Manager to be ready

After a few seconds, the usual Login Page appeared.

Ops Manager Login Page

Logged in the with the ‘admin’ account and password, and then I was greeted with the new UI. Also, it is now named “Foundation Core”!

Welcome to Foundation Core!

Navigated to “Manage” tab and then to the “Capabilities” page, which shows the current tiles that are installed.

Capabilities page showing the installed tiles

Clicked on “Changes” tab, and clicked on “Apply Pending Changes” to deploy the new Bosh Director version.

Apply Pending Changes

Apply Changes running.

Apply Changes running

It completed in around 8 minutes!

Apply Changes completed!