Issue upgrading to vSphere 8.0.2

[Semmaris]

Hello, 

I can't update vsphere to 8.0.2 because i've updated my sphere to 23307199 (due to critical security issue) and the interop catalog have a max release upgrade for vsphere 7 of 22348816

      "upgrade_from": [
          {
            "release": "6.7.0",
            "min": "8169922",
            "max": "20497097",
            "excl": []
          },
          {
            "release": "7.0.0",
            "min": "16850804",
            "max": "22348816",
            "excl": []
          },
          {
            "release": "8.0.0",
            "min": "20513097",
            "max": "22088125",
            "excl": []
          }
        ],

How can i do ? 

[Kipp_Glover]

Hi Semmaris,  I am looking into this and we get back shortly.   

/Kipp

[gustenar]

Hello @Semmaris,

The problem doesn't appear to be the interoperability catalog file. Checking VMware's upgrade path, it is not supported updating from 7.0.3p to 8.0.2. Only from 7.0.3p to 8.0.2b. 

Your option at the moment could be to skip the ESXi upgrade and only do the Simplivity Software. Once we get version 8.0.2b qualified you could use Upgrade Manager to upgrade ESXi from 7.0.3p to 8.0.2b. 

Hope this helps. 

[Kipp_Glover · Accepted solution]

SimpliVity Nodes running ESXi 7.0 U3p cannot be upgraded to ESXi 8.0 U2 using release 5.0.0 Upgrade Manager (UM).   The Interop Catalog file (v2.1.7) does not support ESXi 7.0 U3p and this is a VMware back-in-time issue where you cannot upgrade to a release with an older release date than the version you are running.

For customers who have installed the ESXi 7.0 U3p patch and want to upgrade to OmniStack 5.0.0, use Upgrade Manager to upgrade OmniStack & firmware and not upgrade ESXi.  Later ESXi can be upgraded manually to 8.0 U2b using ESXCLI method or wait for the SimpliVity ESXi 8.0 U2b Custom Offline Bundle coming at the end of May and use Upgrade Manager

/Kipp