HP StorageWorks Clustered File System 3.1.1p1 Linux Edition Upgrade Guide (February 2006)

“All-at-Once” Upgrades

This chapter describes how to upgrade all servers at once. The cluster will

be down during the upgrade procedure.

Upgrade Procedure

Complete the following steps on all servers in the cluster:

1. Back up the HP Clustered File System configuration as described

under “Back Up the Existing Cluster” on page 2.

2. Stop HP Clustered File System:

# /etc/init.d/pmxs stop

3. If the following HP Clustered File System configuration files have

been modified at your site, save copies of the files:

/etc/opt/hpcfs/mxinit.conf

/etc/opt/hpcfs/scl.conf

/etc/opt/hpcfs/fc_pcitable

4. Uninstall HP Clustered Gateway. (When you uninstall HP Clustered

Gateway, you may see an error message stating that a failure occurred.

You can ignore this message; the uninstall was successful.)

# rpm -e mxfs-sles9-support

# rpm -e mxfs

# rpm -e mxfs-patches

5. Uninstall the HP Clustered File System Support RPM: