Upgrading vRealize Operations to 6.4

vRealize Operations 6.4 brings in some really cool advancements in the UI along with some 13 new and amazing out-of-box dashboards. The new Dashboards provide 
a) Summary of the environment
b) VM troubleshooting capabilities. Deeper details like OS, IP address etc.
c) Infrastructure performance and capacity details at the Datacenter level. It now provides key performance indicators for an objects and has ability to highlight issues and related objects to it.

Besides this also introduce support for vSphere 6.5 and Predictive DRS (pDRS)

Predictive DRS : Predictive DRS (pDRS) can proactively load balance a vCenter Server cluster to accommodate predictable patterns.

Where DRS performs load balancing of hosts within a cluster by considering the last five minutes of virtual machine demand, Predictive DRS acts based on data provided to it by vRealize Operations Manager. 

vRealize Operations Manager monitors virtual machines running in a vCenter Server, analyzes longer-term historical data and provides forecast data about predictable patterns of resource usage to Predictive DRS. Predictive DRS moves to balance resource usage based on these predictable patterns.

So in all, vROPs 6.4 brings in a lot cool features which are worth an upgrade.

However there are a few pointers which needs to be considered before you rush to an upgrade

1) Upgrading older versions of vRealize Operations Manager (6.0.x or 6.1) must use a two-step upgrade...They must first upgrade to vRealize Operations Manager 6.3 and then upgrade to vRealize Operations Manager 6.4

2) For recent versions of Realize Operations Manager (6.3, 6.2, or 6.2.1), we can upgrade directly to vRealize Operations Manager 6.4

3) Upgrading to vROPs 6.4 includes upgrading 2 pak files

a. The OS pak file

b. the Virtual Appliance pak file 

4) Make sure a snapshot of each node in the vROPs cluster is taken before we start the upgrade

5) Take a backup of any customization, configurations, custom dashboard etc. being created before the starting the upgrade procedure.

Follow the instructions on the "Updating your Software" Link and you should be able to upgrade to vROPs 6.4 without any issues.