PowerProtect Data Manager 19.18 Kubernetes User Guide

Uninstall the Velero plug-in and redeploy when updating PowerProtect Data Manager

For Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, when updating PowerProtect Data Manager to the latest release, perform the following steps to uninstall the existing Velero plug-in and deploy the new one.

1. In a command prompt, run ./velero-vsphere uninstall to uninstall the Velero instance in the Supervisor cluster.
2. Log in to the vSphere Client.
3. Go to Menu > Workload Management to view the namespaces running in the Supervisor cluster.
4. Select the velero namespace and click Remove to delete the existing Supervisor namespace for the velero instance.
5. Click New Namespace to add a Supervisor namespace with the name velero for the new velero instance.
6. Use the Velero vSphere Operator CLI to install the velero-plugin-for-vSphere into the velero namespace:
   • For Supervisor cluster version 1.21 and earlier, run velero-vsphere install --namespace velero --plugins vsphereveleroplugin/velero-plugin-for-vsphere:v1.4.0 --no-secret --no-default-backup-location --use-volume-snapshots=false
   • For Supervisor cluster version 1.22 and later, run velero-vsphere install --namespace velero --plugins vsphereveleroplugin/velero-plugin-for-vsphere:v1.4.0 --image velero/velero:v1.8.1 --no-secret --no-default-backup-location --use-volume-snapshots=false