3.6.0 Matrix Server Upgrade Guide (5697-7085, February 2008)

Contents iv

Upgrade Matrix Server Without Reinstalling the OS . . . . . . . . . 20

4 Non-Rolling Upgrades

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Custom Installations of Matrix Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Upgrade Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Upgrade Considerations for MxDB for SQL Server . . . . . . . . . . 25

Upgrade Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Upgrade Matrix Server and Reinstall the OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Upgrade Matrix Server Without Reinstalling the OS . . . . . . . . . 30

5 Post-Upgrade Steps

Changes Necessitated by the Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Replace Membership Partitions That Are Too Small . . . . . . . . . 37

Recreate Notifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Recreate Concatenated Dynamic Volumes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Remove Custom Setting for GcTrimLevel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Use Existing Instance Aliasing Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Upgrade the PolyServe Management Console on Clients . . . . . 40

Configure New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41