Installation and Upgrade Guide

B.5 Booting OpenVMS I64 from the InfoServer..................................................................................199
B.6 Troubleshooting InfoServer Boot Problems..................................................................................201
C Using HP SIM and vMedia to Install and Upgrade OpenVMS...........................203
C.1 HP SIM Provisioning of OpenVMS..............................................................................................203
C.1.1 About HP SIM and Provisioning..........................................................................................203
C.1.2 Prerequisites for HP SIM Provisioning................................................................................204
C.1.3 Setting Up InfoServer Support.............................................................................................205
C.1.4 Setting Up vMedia................................................................................................................207
C.1.5 Setting Up HP SIM and the Windows Server to Provision OpenVMS................................214
C.1.5.1 Installing the OpenVMS Provisioning Plug-in for HP SIM.........................................214
C.1.5.2 Discovering and Identifying Your New Provisioning Client MPs ..............................214
C.1.6 Provisioning OpenVMS........................................................................................................217
C.1.6.1 Provisioning OpenVMS Through the InfoServer.........................................................218
C.1.6.2 Provisioning OpenVMS Through vMedia...................................................................226
C.2 Using vMedia Independently of HP SIM.....................................................................................232
C.2.1 Prerequisites for Using vMedia to Install or Upgrade OpenVMS.......................................233
C.2.2 Using vMedia to Install or Upgrade OpenVMS...................................................................234
D Setting Up and Booting Fibre Channel Storage Devices......................................241
D.1 Booting on a Fibre Channel Storage Device on OpenVMS I64 Systems......................................241
D.1.1 Checking the Firmware Version...........................................................................................241
D.1.2 Obtaining the IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities.............................................................242
D.1.3 Configuring and Booting FC Boot Device............................................................................242
D.1.4 Configuring Additional Nodes to Boot into a Cluster Using a Shared Disk.......................245
E Backing Up and Restoring the System Disk.............................................................247
E.1 Reasons for Backing Up the System Disk.....................................................................................247
E.2 Suggested Procedures...................................................................................................................247
E.3 OpenVMS Cluster Caution...........................................................................................................247
E.4 Backing Up the System Disk.........................................................................................................248
E.4.1 Getting Started......................................................................................................................248
E.4.2 Mounting Devices.................................................................................................................248
E.4.3 Performing the System Disk Backup....................................................................................248
E.4.4 Changing the Disk Volume Cluster Size...............................................................................249
E.4.5 Logging Out, Shutting Down, and Rebooting......................................................................249
E.5 Restoring the System Disk............................................................................................................249
E.5.1 Getting Started......................................................................................................................249
E.5.2 Mounting Devices.................................................................................................................250
E.5.3 Performing the System Disk Restore....................................................................................250
E.5.4 Logging Out, Shutting Down, and Rebooting......................................................................250
E.6 Alternative Backup and Restore Procedure (Minimum OpenVMS Environment)......................251
E.6.1 Preparing an Alternate System Disk.....................................................................................251
E.6.2 Using the Alternate System Disk..........................................................................................252
F Installing the OpenVMS Internationalization Data Kit...........................................255
G Preparing to Use OpenVMS Management Station...............................................257
G.1 Preparing Your OpenVMS System...............................................................................................257
G.1.1 Setting Up in a Mixed-Architecture Cluster Environment..................................................257
G.1.2 Starting the Server on Other Nodes.....................................................................................259
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