VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Installation Guide (September 2004)

Before You Start

Installation and Upgrade Requirements

Chapter 1

Add or Upgrade Licenses

Volume Manager 3.5 introduces a new licensing package, VRTSvlic, that is common to all new

VERITAS products. The VRTSvlic package replaces the functionality of the VRTSlic package that

was used in VxVM 3.2 and earlier releases. The following table lists equivalency between licensing

commands in VRTSlic and VRTSvlic:

Any existing valid VxVM license keys are accepted for backward compatibility on upgrading to

Volume Manager 3.5. The new licensing package silently converts the old key to a new value.

However, you may need to obtain additional licenses for features that are new in Volume Manager 3.5.

You should retain the old VRTSlic package on your system if it is required by any installed VERITAS

products other than VxVM. If you choose to remove the VRTSlic package to free up disk space, this

does not delete the existing license key files.

If you are upgrading to Volume Manager 3.5 and have not yet added the VRTSvlic package to your

system, you can use the following commands to view the currently installed licenses:

# vxlicense -p

# /usr/sbin/vxliccheck -pv

If you need to add new licenses to support features in Volume Manager 3.5, you must add the new

licensing package, VRTSvlic.

After the VRTSvlic package has been installed, you can view the currently installed licenses (for both

VRTSlic and VRTSvlic) with the following command:

# vxlicrep

To add new licenses to VxVM and to other VERITAS products that use the VRTSvlic package for

licensing, enter the following command:

# vxlicinst

For any installed VERITAS products that use the VRTSlic package for licensing, use the following

command to add new licenses:

# vxlicense -c

For more information about the new licensing commands in the VRTSvlic package, refer to the

vxlicinst(1), vxlicrep(1) and vxlictest(1) manual pages.

Upgrading VxVM

You cannot upgrade the VRTSvxvm (or Base-VXVM) and license packages at the same time, since

the license package does not support upgrade.

Installing VRTSob, VRTSvmpro, and VRTSfspro

To use VEA, the following packages need to be installed and running on the server:

• VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Service (VRTSob)

Table 1-4 Equivalency Table

VRTSlic command VRTSvlic command Description

vxlicense -c vxlicinst Installs a license.

vxlicense -p vxlicrep Reports installed licenses.

vxlicense -t vxlictest Tests a license.