
Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 Product Support Pack upgrade (PSPACK5)
I documented this manual Product Support Pack workflow on an existing 8.x Aria Suite Lifecycle appliance. For background, see VMware’s Product Support Pack overview. Typically the newer Product Support Pack is included part of the upgrade for Aria Suite Lifecycle, however sometimes there are product releases in between releases where product support packs come in handy. As of 8.16.0 Product Support Pack 4 we can no longer automatically download the Product Support Pack upgrade files. I covered the previous PSPACK4 manual upgrade in this guide. The release notes for 8.16 can be found here. The release notes for 8.18 Product Support Pack 5 can be found here. ...