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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 customer Virtualized Environment and Avaya Aura® Virtualized Appliance model.
Solution Deployment Manager provides the combined capabilities that Software Management, Avaya Virtual Application Manager, and System Platform provided in earlier releases.
From Release 7.1 and later, Solution Deployment Manager supports migration of Virtualized Environment-based 6.x and 7.0.x applications to Release 7.1 and later in customer Virtualized Environment.
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 is the primary management solution for Avaya Aura® Release 7.0 and later applications.
System Manager with Solution Deployment Manager runs on:
Avaya Aura® Virtualized Appliance: Contains a server, Appliance Virtualization Platform, and Avaya Aura® application OVA. Appliance Virtualization Platform includes a VMware ESXi 6.0 hypervisor.
From Release 7.0 and later, Appliance Virtualization Platform replaces System Platform.
Customer-provided Virtualized Environment solution: Avaya Aura® applications are deployed on customer-provided, VMware® certified hardware.
With Solution Deployment Manager, you can perform the following operations in Virtualized Environment and Avaya Aura® Virtualized Appliance models:
Deploy Avaya Aura® applications.
Upgrade and migrate Avaya Aura® applications.
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, media modules, and TN boards.
Session Manager
Branch Session Manager
Utility Services
Appliance Virtualization Platform, the ESXi host that is running on the Avaya Aura® Virtualized Appliance.
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 7.x, see Avaya Aura® System Manager Solution Deployment Manager Job-Aid.