VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 for HP-UX Release Notes

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Supported Migration Scenarios

Migrating VxVM 3.1 on HP-UX 11.0 to VxVM 3.2 on HP-UX 11i The upgrade procedure

allows you to retain your existing HP-UX 11.0 VxVM configuration. After upgrading, you can

resume using VxVM on the same host with an upgraded operating system without running

the vxinstall procedure.

NOTE The following procedure describes how to migrate VxVM disk groups between

different versions of the HP-UX operating System and assumes that the VxVM

disk groups being migrated are already using VxVM 3.1, not VxVM 3.0.

If you need to upgrade VxVM 3.0 disk groups to VxVM 3.1 disk groups, refer to Installing

Veritas Volume Manager for HP-UX on HP-UX 11i. The manual is available at the HP

documentation web site: http://www.docs.hp.com. Search using the phrase “VERITAS

Volume Manager”.

Migration Procedure

1. Print the current VxVM configuration into a file, and then copy the file to a system that is

not the VxVM server being upgraded. Use the following command to print the

configuration to a file:

# vxprint -mh > /file1

2. Copy the current license-key files to a system that is not the VxVM server being upgraded.

The VERITAS license-key files are in the /etc/vx/elm directory and have a .lic

extension.

3. Print the current license-key configuration into a file, then copy the file to a system that is

not the VxVM server being upgraded. Use the following command to print the

configuration to a file:

# vxlicense -p > /vxlicense1.out

4. Unmount all file systems mounted on VxVM volumes using the umount (1M) command or

the Volume Manager Storage Administrator (VMSA) graphical user interface (GUI). For

example:

# umount /vxvm_vol1

# umount /vxvm_vol2

5. Copy the lines in /etc/fstab that mount the VxVM file systems into a file on a system

that is not the VxVM server being upgraded.