This phase involves pausing all scheduled replications of protected workloads and waiting for running replications to complete.
Use the PlateSpin Forge Web Client to pause all scheduled replications. Wait for any replications that are underway to complete. Ensure that the replication status of protected workloads is in the Replication Status column.
Power off the Forge Management VM. See Starting and Shutting Down the Forge Management VM.
Back up the Forge Management VM by creating a snapshot. See Managing Forge Snapshots on the Appliance Host.
For Forge 1.x appliances, disable Independent mode for VM Hard Disk 2:
In the Inventory panel at the left, right-click the Forge Management VM and select .
The Virtual Machine Properties window is displayed.
On the tab, click .
At the right, clear the check box.
Power on the Forge Management VM, access it with the VMware Infrastructure Client, and do the following:
Install the latest Microsoft .NET Framework software. Forge 3 requires at least Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, SP1.
Update Windows, applying any available security updates.
Reboot the Forge Management VM.
Run the Forge setup installation executable within the Forge Management VM and follow the on-screen instructions.
NOTE:In some situations the installation program might fail to automatically re-import data that it exports during the upgrade process. If this happens, use the PlateSpin.ImportExport.exe utility to recover this data from your server host’s \Documents and Settings\<user_profile>\Application Data\PlateSpin directory. See KB Article 7921084.
Use the PlateSpin Forge Web Client to resume all paused replications.
Use the Virtual Infrastructure Client to remove the snapshot created in Step 3.
IMPORTANT:Drivers that were uploaded to the PlateSpin Forge driver database for failback are not preserved. Any such drivers need to be uploaded again after the upgrade.