A.2 Forge Upgrade Procedure

This phase involves pausing all scheduled replications of protected workloads and waiting for running replications to complete.

  1. From the PlateSpin Forge Web Client, click Pause Schedule to pause all scheduled replications. Wait for any replications that are underway to complete. Ensure that the replication status of protected workloads is idle in the Replication Status column.

    See Launching the PlateSpin Forge Web Interface in the PlateSpin Forge 4.0 User Guide.

  2. Power off the Forge Management VM. See Starting and Shutting Down the Forge Management VM in the PlateSpin Forge 4.0 User Guide.

  3. Back up the Forge Management VM by creating a snapshot. See Managing Forge Snapshots on the Appliance Host in the PlateSpin Forge 4.0 User Guide.

  4. For Forge Appliance 1 versions, disable Independent mode for VM Hard Disk 2:

    1. In the Inventory panel at the left, right-click the Forge Management VM and select Edit Settings.

      The Virtual Machine Properties window is displayed.

    2. On the Hardware tab, click Hard Disk 2.

    3. At the right, deselect the Independent check box.

  5. Power on the Forge Management VM, access it with the VMware client program, and do the following:

    1. Install the latest Microsoft .NET Framework software. Forge 3 requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, SP1.

    2. Update Windows, applying any available security updates.

    3. Reboot the Forge Management VM.

  6. Run PlateSpinForgeSetup-3.1.0.3050.exe within the Forge Management VM and follow the on-screen instructions.

    1. Testing has shown that this version of the upgrade program launches the Running Jobs Detected dialog box. In this dialog box, select Yes - Proceed with installation, then click Next.

    IMPORTANT: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.

  7. From the PlateSpin Forge Web Client, click Resume Schedule to resume all scheduled replications.

  8. Use the VMware client program 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.