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RHEL: Upgrade vFabric SQLFire from RPM
If your guest operating system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and you have installed a previous version
of SQLFire using yum and RPM, VMware recommends that you use the RPM distribution to upgrade vFabric
SQLFire. You complete the upgrade procedure on every virtual and physical machine that runs SQLFire.
Note: Thoroughly test your development systems with the new version before moving into production.
When you upgrade vFabric SQLFire on RHEL from RPM, the new software is installed by default into
/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_XX where XX corresponds to the version of
SQLFire (for example, vFabric_SQLFire_11) that you have installed. No les are overwritten during the upgrade
process.
Prerequisites
Conrm that your system meets the hardware and software requirements described in Supported Congurations
and System Requirements on page 15.
Download the vFabric SQLFire RPM:
From the VMware downloads page, select VMware vFabric SQLFire.
If you are installing SQLFire for evaluation, click the Try Now button to download an evaluation RPM.
If you have purchased SQLFire, download the vFabric SQLFire offering you have purchased from the Product
Downloads tab. You can also get SQLFire from your salesperson.
Download the vFabric SQLFire RPM appropriate for your RHEL operating system.
RHEL 5: vfabric-sqlfire-1.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm
RHEL 6: vfabric-sqlfire-1.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm
Procedure
Upgrade vFabric SQLFire using the RPM:
1. Review the items listed in Prerequisites on page 30 and make any appropriate preparations.
2.
Stop all members of the system running with the prior version. For example, use the shut-down-all
command:
sqlf shut-down-all -locators=localhost[10101]
In the sample command, substitute the address and port of a locator for your SQLFire distributed system. To
shut down only the local SQLFire process, use the command:
/etc/init.d/vfabric-sqlfire stop
3.
Execute the following rpm command to install the new SQLFire RPM. If necessary, use sudo to run the
command if you are not logged in as root:
RHEL 5:
sudo rpm -Uvh vfabric-sqlfire-1.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm
RHEL 6:
sudo rpm -Uvh vfabric-sqlfire-1.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm
The rpm command begins the install process, resolves dependencies, and displays the packages it plans to
install.
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