Solution Deployment Manager is a centralized software management solution in System Manager that provides deployments, upgrades, migrations, and updates to Avaya Aura® applications. Solution Deployment Manager supports the operations on the customer’s Virtualized Environment and the Avaya Aura® Virtualized Appliance model.

Solution Deployment Manager supports migration of Virtualized Environment-based 8.1.x or 10.1.x applications to Release 10.2.x in the customer’s Virtualized Environment. For migrating to Release 10.2.x and later, you must use Solution Deployment Manager Release 10.2.x and later.

Release 7.0 and later supports a standalone version of Solution Deployment Manager, the Solution Deployment Manager client. For more information, see Using the Solution Deployment Manager client.

System Manager with Solution Deployment Manager runs on:

• Customer-provided Virtualized Environment solution: Avaya Aura® applications are deployed on customer-provided, VMware® certified hardware.

• Software-Only environment: Avaya Aura® applications are deployed on the customer-owned hardware and the operating system.

• Avaya Solutions Platform 130: Avaya Aura® applications are deployed on the Avaya provided hardware.

With Solution Deployment Manager, you can do the following in Virtualized Environment, Avaya Solutions Platform 130, and Avaya Aura® Virtualized Appliance Release 8.x or earlier models:

• Deploy Avaya Aura® applications.

• Upgrade and migrate Avaya Aura® applications.

  Note:

  When an application is configured with Out of Band Management, Solution Deployment Manager does not support upgrade for that application.

  For information about upgrading the application, see the application-specific upgrade document on the Avaya Support website.

• Download Avaya Aura® applications.

• Install service packs, feature packs, and software patches for the following Avaya Aura® applications:

  • Communication Manager and associated devices, such as gateways, and media modules

  • Session Manager

  • Branch Session Manager

  • AE Services

The upgrade process from Solution Deployment Manager involves the following key tasks:

• Discover the Avaya Aura® applications.

• Refresh applications and associated devices and download the necessary software components.

• Run the preupgrade check to ensure successful upgrade environment.

• Upgrade Avaya Aura® applications.

• Install software patch, service pack, or feature pack on Avaya Aura® applications.

For more information about the setup of the Solution Deployment Manager functionality that is part of System Manager 10.2.x, see Avaya Aura® System Manager Solution Deployment Manager Job-Aid.