Installation and Upgrade Guide

1.4.1 Using the Install, Upgrade, or Reconfigure OpenVMS Option (1)
Select option 1 on the operating system main menu to install, upgrade, or reconfigure your
OpenVMS software. Selecting option 1 implements a PCSI utility concept called a platform. The
OpenVMS platform contains:
• The OpenVMS operating system
• Kerberos, Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),
Performance Data Collector (TDC) (base), Availability Manager (base), WBEM Services
for OpenVMS, and WBEM Providers for OpenVMS, all of which are installed automatically
with OpenVMS
• The optional DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS, DECnet-Plus, DECnet Phase IV, and
TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS products
NOTE: For use of Instant Capacity (iCAP), Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP), and Pay per
use (PPU) (supported on cell-based Integrity servers), and for support of such products as gWLM
and HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), you must install TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS.
SSL for OpenVMS is required and is installed automatically.
Including the optional products in the OpenVMS platform allows you to install or upgrade these
products along with the OpenVMS operating system.
When you choose to upgrade the system disk, and the OpenVMS software on the disk is the
same version, you are given options to reinstall or to reconfigure the OpenVMS system or
reconfigure the OpenVMS platform.
Before installing or upgrading OpenVMS, see the information in the following chapters, as
appropriate:
• Chapter 2: “Preparing to Install in an OpenVMS Cluster Environment” (page 45)
• Chapter 3: “Installing the OpenVMS Operating System” (page 49)
• Chapter 4: “Before Upgrading the OpenVMS Operating System” (page 77)
• Chapter 5: “Preparing to Upgrade in an OpenVMS Cluster Environment” (page 87)
• Chapter 6: “Upgrading the OpenVMS Operating System” (page 95)
NOTE: Before installing or upgrading OpenVMS on a target drive in an OpenVMS Cluster,
make sure the target system disk is not mounted elsewhere in the cluster. The target system disk
must be dismounted clusterwide (except on the system from which the installation or upgrade
is being performed) and must remain so during the installation or upgrade.
When you select option 1 on the operating system main menu, the system asks whether you
want to preserve or initialize the system disk. The display is similar to the following:
There are two choices for Installation/Upgrade:
INITIALIZE - Removes all software and data files that were
previously on the target disk and installs OpenVMS I64.
PRESERVE -- Installs or upgrades OpenVMS I64 on the target disk
and retains all other contents of the target disk.
* Note: You cannot use PRESERVE to install OpenVMS I64 on a disk on
which any other operating system is installed. This includes
implementations of OpenVMS for other architectures.
Do you want to INITIALIZE or to PRESERVE? [PRESERVE]
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