VMware VCENTER CHARGEBACK 1.5 Manual page 26

vCenter Chargeback User's Guide
You can also back up the relevant configuration files from the current vCenter Chargeback installation, so that
you can restore the existing installation if the upgrade fails. See KB 1026796
(http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026796) for further details.
Upgrade vCenter Chargeback
You can upgrade an existing vCenter Chargeback instance to a later version.
Prerequisites
Before you upgrade a standalone vCenter Chargeback instance, stop the corresponding vCenter Chargeback
service and the data collector services. If any vCenter Chargeback related service is running, the upgrade
process fails.
For a cluster installation, you must upgrade each vCenter Chargeback instance in the cluster. You must first
upgrade the instance that has the load balancer. Before upgrading the first instance of a cluster, you must stop
all the related services. When the first instance is upgraded, the corresponding vCenter Chargeback database
is also upgraded. After the upgrade, the vCenter Chargeback service and the corresponding database, data
collector, and load balancer services are automatically restarted.
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cluster with multi-version vCenter Chargeback instances might not function correctly.
Ensure that you are running the installer on the machine on which you want to install vCenter Chargeback. If
you run the installer from a shared location on the network, the installer might fail.
Procedure
1 Run the
vCenter-CB.exe
The installation wizard is displayed.
2 Click Next on the Introduction screen.
3 Accept the end-user license agreement, and click Next.
When the installer detects an older version of vCenter Chargeback, an Alert dialog box is displayed.
4 Click Upgrade to 1.5.0.0 in the Alert dialog box.
5 If the vCenter Chargeback database is an SQL Server database, the installer displays the Database
Configuration screen.
You can change the SQL Authentication Mode option on this screen.
a (Optional) Select Windows Authentication as the authentication type.
b Provide the Windows user account name in the form
The user must have the Log on as a service permission.
The installer checks whether all the vCenter Chargeback and data collector services are stopped. If any of
the services are running, the installer stops the services.
6 Choose to install the required data collectors and click Next.
The Install vCenter Chargeback Data Collector option is selected by default. You must have at least one
instance of this data collector running and registered with the application for the database synchronization
jobs to run.
You can optionally choose to install the VMware Cloud Director Data Collector and vShield Manager Data
Collector. All the data collectors can be installed even after a vCenter Chargeback instance is installed. If
you are installing the vShield Manager Data Collector, choose to install the VMware Cloud Director Data
Collector too or ensure that at least one instance of VMware Cloud Director Data Collector is running.
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