4.1.0 HP Polyserve Matrix Server Upgrade Guide (T5392-96067, October 2010)

DescriptionAction
Review “Upgrade considerations” on page 7
and then upgrade each server as described un-
der “Rolling upgrade procedure” on page 9.
• Rolling upgrade with new OS
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.
Remove Virtual MSDTC configuration
To remove the configuration, take the following steps:
1. Change the MSDTC configuration on the SQL Server nodes from remote coordin-
ator (VMSDTC) to Local coordinator.
2. Un-virtualize the MSDTC Service.
3. Delete the Virtual MSDTC hosts.
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:
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