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

8 Removing Veritas 5.0 Products
This chapter discusses how to remove the Veritas 5.0 suite of products from an HP-UX 11i v3
system, using the HP-UX SD commands.
This chapter addresses the following topics:
• Removing Storage Management for Oracle
• Removing VxVM
• Removing VxFS
• Removing CVM
CAUTION: If VxVM/VxFS 4.1 were installed on a system and VxVM/VxFS 5.0 were installed
on top of it, the 4.1 products are removed from the system. Removing 5.0 products later makes
the system become unbootable.
NOTE: You must remove the SMO bundles before VxFS and VxVM bundles.
Removing Storage Management for Oracle
Removing HP SMO Standard (T2789CB )
To remove T2789CB, enter the following command:
# swremove T2789CB
Removing HP SMO Premium (T2790CB )
To remove T2790CB, enter the following command:
# swremove T2790CB
Removing VxVM
VxVM 5.0 can be removed from systems only if the root disk is under HP Logical Volume Manager
(LVM) control. If you try to remove VxVM 5.0 software from your system without completing
the following steps, you will lose data and your system will be in an unstable state.
The following steps provide an overview of the VxVM removal procedure:
• Back-up data on your system.
• Modify file systems and other applications that use volumes to use disks or LVM volumes.
• Remove copies of file systems to free up as much space as possible.
• Remove plexes, except one.
• Striped or spanned volumes must be moved to a single disk or to an appropriate LVM
volume.
• Shut down VxVM.
Moving VxVM Volumes to LVM Volumes
To move VxVM volumes to LVM, complete the following steps:
1. Evacuate as many disks as possible. Evacuation moves sub-disks from the source disks to
target disks. The evacuated disks provide the initial free disk space for volumes to be moved
to LVM volumes. Disks can be evacuated in one of the following ways:
• Using the vxdiskadm command with the Remove a disk option.
• Using the vxevac script.
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