HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.09) (5900-2188, March 2012)

Figure 10 Overview of Update Process for Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environment
High-Level Description of the Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environment Update Process
The following list gives a high-level description of the process shown in Figure 10. After backing
up all virtual partitions and establishing a depot with the required HP-UX OE and vPars versions,
the steps are as follows. For details and examples see “The Update Process for Mixed HP-UX 11i
v1/v2 vPars Environments: Step by Step Details” (page 85).
1. Make sure that all the virtual partitions are up.
2. Record the current autoboot and autosearch settings of all the virtual partitions.
3. Change the autoboot setting to manual for all virtual partitions.
This step is critical, to avoid automatically rebooting into the wrong vPars Monitor.
4. Disable (undeploy) gWLM if it is in use.
5. Determine if it will be necessary to change the PRI boot path for the nPartition and record the
path details.
a. Find the nPartition partition number and the PRI boot path for the current nPartition.
b. Find the boot path of the boot disk of a future vPars A.04.05 virtual partition.
Updating from vPars A.03.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars (A.03.05 and A.04.05) Environment 81