With Release 10.1, the Solution Deployment Manager client supports the Pre-staging feature to prestage the System Manager OVA, service pack or feature pack, or data migration utility files to deploy, upgrade, or update only the System Manager application. If you are on a low bandwidth zone, this is a recommended option to prestage the data.
Note:
The Pre-staging feature is supported to deploy, upgrade, and update System Manager on the Appliance Virtualization Platform Release 8.1.x and earlier system, VMware ESXi, and vCenter platforms.
Prestage process
If you plan to deploy, upgrade, or update System Manager by using the Pre-staging feature, the process has to be completed in two phases:
Create a prestaging job. You can create:
Prestaging job to upload and store the files on the datastore of the host.
Note:
For upgrade, some files are also stored on the old System Manager system.
Local prestaging job to store the files on the local system in the C:\Program Files\Avaya\AvayaSDMClient\Default_Artifacts folder.
You can create, view status, cancel, retry, and delete the prestaging job by using the Solution Deployment Manager client.
Select the prestaged files by using the Browse Pre-stage Location option while deploying, upgrading, or updating System Manager.
