Veritas 5.0 Installation Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

NOTE: During the OS upgrade, the following errors will be reported. However these errors
can be ignored and the OS upgrade will complete successfully.
ERROR: A later revision (one with a higher revision number) of fileset "VRTSvxvm.VXVM-KRN,r=4.1.032" has already
been installed.
ERROR: A later revision (one with a higher revision number) of fileset "VRTSvxvm.VXVM-RUN,r=4.1.032" has already
been installed.
Alternatively you can upgrade from VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v3
without removing the VxVM 5.0 package on HP-UX 11i v2.
To upgrade to VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v3 without removing VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2
To upgrade to VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v3 without removing the VxVM 5.0 package on HP-UX
11i v2, complete the following steps:
1. Copy the depot to a depot server.
2. Copy VxVM 5.0 on HPUX 11i v3 into the ignite depot using the swcopy command.
3. Stop activity to all VxVM volumes. For example, stop any applications such as databases
that access the volumes, and unmount any file systems that have been created on the volumes.
4. Remove VxVM 4.1 version which is the default VxVM version on HP-UX 11i v3 from the
ignite depot using the swremove command.
5. Upgrade from HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v3. For more information on upgrading to HP-UX
11i v3, see the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide at: http://www.docs.hp.com.
After the OS upgrade is complete, VxVM 5.0 will be installed. Upon successful completion of
the upgrade, disk groups created in VxVM 5.0 for HP-UX 11i v2 will be accessible.
Upgrading from VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i
v3
Following are some of the guidelines that you must consider prior to upgrading from VxVM 4.1
on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v3:
• Disk group version 120 is the default disk group version for VxVM 4.1, whereas disk group
version 140 is the default disk group version for VxVM 5.0.
• All disk group versions supported by VxVM 4.1 (90, 110, and 120) are also supported by
VxVM 5.0. Consequently, all the disk groups created using VxVM 4.1 can be imported after
upgrading to VxVM 5.0. Some new features and tasks work only on disk groups with the
current disk group versions. To use new features, the disk group versions need to be
upgraded.
• VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v3 supports shared disk groups only on disk group version 140.
VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i v3 does not support shared disk groups.
To Upgrade from VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v3
To upgrade from VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v3, complete the
following steps:
1. Stop activity to all VxVM volumes. For example, stop any applications such as databases
that access the volumes, and unmount any file systems that have been created on the volumes.
2. Upgrade from HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v3. For more information on upgrading to HP-UX
11i v3, see the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide at: http://www.docs.hp.com.
After the OS upgrade is complete, Base-VXVM 4.1 will be the default VxVM software
available in the system. Shared disk groups with disk group versions less than or equal to
120 will not be accessible, as shared disk group is not supported in VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i
v3.
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