Cold Installation of VxFS 5.0.1 and VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3 September 2009 Operating Environment Update Release
1. Copy the September 2009 11i v3 OEUR or later Operating Environment (OE) into a SD depot.
2. Delete VxFS 5.0 and VxVM 5.0 from the depot (created in step 1) by entering the following command:
# swremove –d B3929FB Base-VxFS-50 Base-VxTools-50 Base-VxVM-50 @ <destination depot>
3. Copy the VxFS 5.0.1 and VxVM 5.0.1 bundles into the depot by entering the following command:
# swcopy –s <depot location of VxFS and VxVM 5.0.1> B3929GB Base-VxFS-501 Base-VxTools-501 Base-
VxVM-501 @ <destination depot>
4. Install or update the system from the depot file.
a. To update HP-UX 11i v2 or HP-UX 11i v3 systems, use the following command:
# update-ux –s <source_location> Base-VxFS-501 Base-VxTools-501 Base-VxVM-501
NOTE:
These steps install the Base-VxFS-501 and Base-VxVM-501 bundles available in the Independent Media. If
licensed 5.0.1 bundles, such as OnlineJFS, Full-VxVM, CVM, Storage Management for Oracle (SMO) or
Serviceguard Storage Management Suite (SG-SMS) are present on your media, you can use similar steps to
install them together. You must additionally copy the respective 5.0.1 licensed bundles into the destination SD
depot and select the same during the upgrade.
If you only need to set up a system with VxFS 5.0.1, copy only the respective 5.0.1 bundles (Base-VxFS-501
and B3929GB) into the destination SD depot and select the same during the upgrade.
Cold-Installing HP-UX 11i v3 September 2009 OEUR with VxFS 5.0.1 and
VxVM 5.0.1 from an Ignite-UX Server
This section describes the process to cold-install a system with HP-UX 11i v3, VxVM 5.0.1, and VxFS 5.0.1 using an
Ignite-UX server. Ensure that certain depot server(s) are set up containing two depots, one with the HP-UX 11i v3
Operating Environment (OE) containing VxFS 5.0 and VxVM 5.0, and other with the VxFS 5.0.1 and VxVM 5.0.1
software. Note that Veritas VxVM 5.0 and VxFS 5.0 are included in the HP-UX 11i v3 OE starting from September 2009,
and you must copy VxFS 5.0.1/VxVM 5.0.1 from an Independent media set.
Preparing the Ignite-UX Server
To prepare the Ignite-UX server, complete the following steps:
1. Enter the swinstall command to install Ignite-UX version C.7.8 (available in the March 2009 release) or later on
an Ignite-UX server. You can confirm the Ignite software version by entering the following command or by
viewing the contents of the /opt/ignite/version file:
# swlist | grep –i ign
2. Create the configuration file for the HP-UX 11i v3 OE depot:
a. # cd /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.31
b. # /opt/ignite/bin/make_config \
- s <depot_server>:<1131_OE_depot> \
- c <OE_config_filename>_cfg
c. Test the configuration file:
# /opt/ignite/bin/instl_adm –T –f <OE_config_filename>_cfg
3. Create the configuration file for the VxVM 5.0.1 depot: