Installation and Upgrade Guide

• Support for a VGA console and USB keyboard as console devices for booting
With VGA support, you can now connect a monitor, keyboard, and mouse directly to
connectors provided for that purpose on your Integrity server panel. You no longer need
to use a serial console, including PC/terminal emulator or character-cell terminal as a console.
On systems that do not include an embedded graphics device, you might be able to select
a graphics option card in a PCI slot to be the graphics console. Check your Integrity server
hardware documentation for details. OpenVMS also supports multiple VGA devices on the
same Integrity server. XDELTA boot and conversational (interactive) boot are not supported
over a VGA console. VGA console support for OpenVMS is available for most Integrity
servers. For more information, see Section A.2 (page 152).
• Support of new time zones
Eight new time zones have been added to this release:
— America/Atikokan
— America/Blanc-Sablon
— America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
— Europe/Guernsey
— Europe/Isle_of_Man
— Europe/Jersey
— Europe/Podgorica
— Europe/Volgograd
For information about setting the local time zone for your computer, seeSection 3.3.3
(page 53). The new time zones are not shown in the examples provided in this manual.
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Document Organization
This manual is organized as follows:
• Chapter 1 (page 25) defines key terms and provides information about hardware and
software components. Review this chapter before performing any installation or upgrade.
• Chapter 2 (page 45) provides preliminary information.
• Chapter 3 (page 49) explains how to install the OpenVMS I64 operating system.
• Chapter 4 (page 77) describes how to prepare your system for an upgrade.
• Chapter 5 (page 87) supplements Chapter 4 (page 77) with additional tasks you must
perform before upgrading an OpenVMS Cluster system.
• Chapter 6 (page 95) describes how to upgrade the operating system.
• Chapter 7 (page 113) describes the tasks you must perform after installing or upgrading the
operating system.
• Appendix A (page 149) provides an overview of the utilities available with HP Integrity
servers, and explains how to configure the system console, how to configure boot options,
and how to boot the OpenVMS operating system.
• Appendix B (page 189) explains how to set up and perform network booting for installations
and upgrades using the InfoServer utility, a software application available on certain
OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS I64 systems.
• Appendix C (page 203) explains how to set up and perform provisioning (installations and
upgrades) of OpenVMS on one or more Integrity servers in a network using HP SIM. In
addition, this appendix explains how to use vMedia to install or upgrade OpenVMS on an
Integrity server in the network.
• Appendix D (page 241) explains how to boot the Fibre Channel storage device.
• Appendix E (page 247) explains how to back up and restore the system disk.
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