Veritas 5.0.1 Installation Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

6 Upgrading from Previous Versions of VxVM to VxVM
5.0.1
This section discusses the requirements to update from the pervious version of Veritas Volume
Manager to the 5.0.1 version of Veritas Volume Manager and also the various supported disk
groups. It addresses the following topics:
• “Determining VxVM Disk Group Version” (page 57)
• “Native Multipathing with Veritas Volume Manager” (page 58)
• “Upgrading from VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i v3 to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3” (page 61)
• “Upgrading from VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3” (page 62)
• “Upgrading From VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v3 to VxVM 5.0.1 Using Integrated VxVM 5.0.1
Package for HPUX 11i v3” (page 63)
• “Upgrading from VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3 ” (page 63)
• “Upgrading from VxVM 3.5 on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3” (page 64)
• “Upgrading from VxVM 3.5 on HP-UX 11i v1 to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3” (page 64)
• “I/O Robustness Recommendations” (page 65)
Determining VxVM Disk Group Version
All Veritas Volume Manager disk groups have an associated version number. Each VxVM release
supports a specific set of disk group versions and can import and perform tasks on disk groups
with those versions.
Some new features and tasks work only on disk groups with the current disk group version, so
you need to upgrade existing disk groups before you can perform the tasks. When you upgrade
from a previous release, you can import disk groups that were created with a supported disk
group. For example, VxVM 5.0.1 supports all disk group versions that VxVM 4.1 supported (90
and 120). Consequently, all disk groups that were created using VxVM 4.1 can be imported after
upgrading to VxVM 5.0.1.
The default disk group version for VxVM 5.0.1 is version 140. VxVM 5.0.1 supports disk groups
with certain earlier versions. However, some new features for VxVM 5.0.1 require the latest disk
group version. VxVM supports shared disk groups only on disk group version 140.
Table 6-1 summarizes the disk group versions that correspond to each VxVM release on HP-UX
from 3.0 to the current version.
Table 6-1 VxVM Disk Group Version
Supported Disk Group VersionDisk Group VersionVxVM Release Number
20–40, 60603.0
20–70703.1
20–80803.1.1
90903.5
90, 1201204.1
90, 120, and 1401405.0
90,120, and 1401405.0.1
Use the following command to determine the version of a disk group:
# vxdg list <diskgroup>
To upgrade a disk group to version 140, use the following command:
Determining VxVM Disk Group Version 57