Release date: August 5th 2019
Welcome to my VMware Unified Access Gateway series. This topic will cover upgrading the UAG. Every now and then, a new version of VMware UAG is released. The newest version, 3.6, was released 02 July 2019. Prior to upgrading my existing UAG 3.5 setup, I have upgraded my Horizon environment to v. 7.9. Before I begin, I first read through the release notes posted here: Release Notes for VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.6
Second, when I check VMware Product Interoperability Matrices, I see that UAG 3.6 is only compatible with Horizon 7.9, which is OK for me as I only use UAG for Horizon pr. now.
Upgrading the UAG can be done 3 different ways:
- Deploy new UAG and punch in all settings manually
- Backup settings from the existing UAG’s, deploy new UAG’s and import settings
- Deploy new UAG’s with new powershell scripts and the same ini-files used in previous deployment.
In this session I will upgrade my UAG’s using the latter method. Before I start the upgrade, I download the necessary media from My VMware
As this is a Lab, and downtime is not an issue, I simply shutdown my existing UAG’s and remove them from vSphere. If it was a production environment, I would most likely use the load balancer to redirect the traffic, before upgrading one UAG at a time. From my deployment server, where I have the ISO, powershell-script and ini-files, I redeploy UAG’s using powershell.
After the UAG’s are deployed, I verify the settings, as described here: VMware Unified Access Gateway – Configuration. I also verify the HA-setup as described here: VMware Unified Access Gateway – High Availability
Lastly, I log in to Horizon Administrator, verify the gateway settings and test logging in from an external source to verify functionality.
That concludes my session about upgrading the UAG’s.
VMware Unified Access Gateway Documentation
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