Crazy about VMware SD-WAN

  Per default in version 5.2 the new Angular (html5) based GUI is now the only installed one. So you should  get familiar with that new UI  But if you search and search and do not find the necessary item in the new UI but need it urgently, what can you do ? An operator can allow also the classical UI by changing a System Parameter to TRUE:  and then the operator or MSP can enable the classical UI for the customer as Operator/MSP/User then you see the "Open Classic Orchestrator" in the upper right area NOTE: the classic UI is not maintained anymore, so there are already some items only vailable in the new UI and any new feature will only be visible by using the new UI Working with the new UI in my environment there were 2 features which were not easy to find. 1. Assign new image to an Edge In the old GUI you could go to the Configure/Edges and under Actions you could select "Assign new Image to Edge". It seems that this feature has been removed (I double checked the

 Recently I upgraded my VMware SD-WAN lab from version 5.0 to 5.2. Since some previous versions the official documentation  recommends to ask TAC for help in upgrading.   Docu 5.2: Orchestrator Upgrade  But if you have an unsupported implementation, like I do, you need to do it on your own: Trying to copy the new version to the VCO failed and I found out that I needed to increase a disk volume How to increase disk volume on VCO is described in this blog:   VCO Upgrade to 4.5.x After increasing the disk size my copy succeeded   NOTE: I did not copy direct to the installation directory including a renaming, as once an upgrade started that file gets deleted and if there are any problems to have to redo the copy from outside.  vcadmin@vco-lab-254:~$ ls -l total 2504488 drwxr-x--- 2 root    root          4096 Aug 31  2022 20220831130007 -rw-rw---- 1 vcadmin vcadmin 2564587520 Aug 10 07:57 vco-debs-signed-5.2.0.3-R5203-20230809-GA-ff5cd1917e.tar vcadmin@vco-lab-254:~$ sudo cp vco-debs-signed