Update and upgrading vCenter server appliance without internet

Updating and upgrading vCenter server appliance need internet to download repository and update vCenter server appliance. If there is no internet access for vCenter server then we need to following two steps.

Step 1:

• Download the update repository from VMware portal.
• Unzip this repository and move the files to Linux web server.
• Move these files to /var/www/html/update folder
• From the vcsa management portal set the update repository path as shown in the image

• Once implementing this setting we will get the following
  
  
  

 Step 2: use proxy on vCenter server appliance

 When we run following command without internet

• /opt/vmware/bin/vamicli update –check we see following in the vami.log

[ERROR] CURL error: couldn't connect to host

 [ERROR] Error downloading manifest:

 [ERROR] Error: couldn't connect to host URL:

• Enable proxy on the vCenter server Appliance

/opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_set_proxy  IP port

• After enabling proxy we can update the vCenter appliance. [INFO] Downloading file. URL

[INFO] Using cache file content

[INFO] Signature script output: Verified OK

[INFO] Signature script output:

[INFO] Manifest signature verification passed