Installation Guide

About this Document
This document provides information on Veritas 5.1 Service Pack1 (SP1) suite of products on systems
running HP-UX 11i v3. Veritas 5.1 SP1 suite of products include Base-VxFS, Base-VxVM, OnlineJFS,
Full VxVM, and Cluster Volume Manager (CVM). This document also includes a product overview,
system requirements, installation, basic configuration, and removal steps for Veritas 5.1 SP1 suite
of products on HP-UX 11i v3.
Intended Audience
This document is intended for system administrators responsible for installing and configuring HP-UX
systems with the Veritas suite of products. Readers are expected to have knowledge of the following:
• HP-UX operating system concepts
• System administration concepts
• Veritas Volume Manager concepts
• Veritas File System concepts
Document Organization
Table 1 Document Organization
DescriptionChapter Title
Describes the Veritas 5.1 SP1 suite of products for
systems running HP-UX 11i v3.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Describes the OS version, software depot contents,
license bundles, disk space requirements, and
Chapter 2: System Requirements
supported upgrade paths for the Veritas 5.1 SP1 suite
of products.
Describes how to install the Veritas 5.1 SP1 suite of
products on systems running HP-UX 11i v3.
Chapter 3: Installing the Veritas 5.1 SP1 Products
Describes how to set up the Veritas 5.1 SP1 suite of
products on HP-UX 11i v3.
Chapter 4: Setting up the Veritas 5.1 SP1 Products
Describes how to upgrade the VxFS disk layout
version.
Chapter 5: Upgrading from Previous Versions of VxFS to VxFS
5.1 SP1
Describes how to upgrade the VxVM disk group
version.
Chapter 6: Upgrading from Previous Versions of VxVM to VxVM
5.1 SP1
Discusses the post upgrade tasks for VxVM.“Post Upgrade Tasks” (page 64)
Describes how to remove the Veritas 5.1 SP1 suite
of products from an HP-UX 11i v3 system.
Chapter 8: Removing Veritas 5.1 SP1 Products
Typographic Conventions
This document uses the following typographic conventions:
monospace Computer output, files, directories, software elements such as command options,
function names, and parameters.
Read tunables from the /etc/vx/tunefstab file.
italic New terms, book titles, emphasis, variables replaced with a name or value
See “Veritas 5.1 SP1 Installation Guide” for more information.
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$ Bourne/Korn shell prompt
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