4.0.0 HP Polyserve Matrix Server Upgrade Guide (T5392-96049, April 2010)

DescriptionAction
Review “Upgrade considerations” on page 14
and then upgrade the servers in groups or all at
once. See “Non-rolling upgrade proced-
ure” on page 15.
• Non-rolling upgrade with new OS
See Chapter 4 on page 21.
Upgrade the HP PolyServe Management
Console on clients.
Back up the existing matrix
During the upgrade procedure, you will need to back up the existing matrix
configuration on each server. Before starting the upgrade, HP recommends that you
back up the membership partitions and PSFS filesystems.
Back up the membership partitions
HP recommends that you back up the membership partitions to ensure that you have
a complete matrix backup.Use the mpdump command to back up the membership
partitions. The following command backs up the partitions to the default backup
location, %Program Files%\Polyserve\matrixserver\conf\
MP.backup.prev on the drive where you installed Matrix Server. The file will then
be included when you back up the matrix configuration.
mpdump -F
To back up the partitions to a different file, use this command:
mpdump -f <file>
Back up the matrix configuration
The Matrix Server service should not be running when you perform the backup. The
default location for the matrix configuration files is %Program Files%\PolyServe\
MatrixServer\conf on the drive where you installed Matrix Server. Back up the
following from the conf directory:
• The files directly under \conf
• The \conf\debug subdirectory
Do not back up the mounts and licenses subdirectories.
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