Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Cluster File System Installation Guide (5900-1510, April 2011)
Upgrading HP-UX
Upgrade the HP-UX operating system to the latest available HP-UX 11i v3 fusion
release. The Base-VxFS-50, Base-VxVM-50 and Base-VxTools-50 bundles need to
be selected while upgrading using update-ux(1M).
If patches to HP-UX 11i v3 are required, apply the patches before upgrading the
Veritas product.
See “Upgrading the HP-UX operating system” on page 237.
Upgrading SFHA or SFORA HA on HP-UX 11i v2 to 5.1 SP1
Use the product installer to upgrade the packages of SFHA or SFORAHA from 4.1
or 5.0 to SFHA 5.1SP1. SFHA 5.1SP1 is only supported on HP-UX 11i v3. If you
are already running Storage Foundation High Availability or Storage Foundation
for Oracle 4.1 or 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2, you must upgrade the operating system to
HP-UX 11i v3. Then upgrade Storage Foundation High Availability to Storage
Foundation High Availability 5.1 SP1.
To upgrade from Storage Foundation HA or SF Oracle HA 4.1 or 5.0 on HP-UX 11i
v2 to Storage Foundation HA 5.1 SP1
1
Check if the VEA service is running:
# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxsvcctrl status
2
If the VEA service is running, stop it:
# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxsvcctrl stop
3
Insert the appropriate software disc into your system's DVD drive.
4
Create a directory in which to mount the software disc and mount the disc
using the appropriate drive name. For example:
# mkdir -p /dvdrom
# /usr/sbin/mount -F cdfs /dev/dsk/c3t2d0 /dvdrom
5
Change to the top-level directory on the disc:
# cd /dvdrom
6
Install Storage Foundation High Availability 5.1 SP1 on HP-UX 11i v3 using
the installer script.
# ./installer
7
Enter G to upgrade and press Return.
233Performing a phased upgrade
Upgrading Storage Foundation Cluster File System and High Availability software from a release prior to 5.1 SP1