Symantec HP-UX manual Preparing to upgrade the product, Planning the upgrade, Upgrade paths

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36Upgrading the product

Preparing to upgrade the product

Preparing to upgrade the product

This section prepares you for the Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File

System upgrade.

Planning the upgrade

Complete the following tasks in advance of upgrading:

Review the Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes for any late-breaking information on upgrading your system.

Be sure that the administrator doing the upgrade has root access and a working knowledge of system administration.

Schedule sufficient outage time for the upgrade.

Make sure that the prerequisite patches required for SFCFS 5.0 are accessible.

Upgrade paths

The upgrade paths for Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System are:

From

Upgrade to

Tasks

 

 

 

Storage Foundation

Storage Foundation

Proceed to Upgrading from 3.5

Cluster File System 3.5

Cluster File System 5.0

to 5.0” on page 39.

(formerly known as,

 

 

SANPoint Foundation

 

 

Suite 3.5)

 

 

 

 

 

Storage Foundation

Storage Foundation

Proceed to “Upgrading from 3.5

Cluster File System 3.5

Cluster File System 5.0

to 5.0” on page 39.

Update 1 (formerly

 

 

known as, SANPoint

 

 

Foundation Suite 3.5

 

 

Update 1)

 

 

 

 

 

Storage Foundation

Storage Foundation

Proceed to “Upgrading from 3.5

Cluster File System 3.5

Cluster File System 5.0

to 5.0” on page 39.

Update 2 (formerly

 

 

known as, SANPoint

 

 

Foundation Suite 3.5

 

 

Update 2)

 

 

 

 

 

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Contents HP-UX Sfcfs Licensing and registration Technical supportPage Contents Chapter Upgrading the product Adding a node to a clusterInstalling and configuring the product Hardware overview Shared storage Fibre channel switchCluster platforms Packages installed with Sfcfs only Software componentsPackage Contents Packages Contents Optional packages for Sfcfs and Sfcfs HARequired HP-UX patches PHKL32272HP-UX Patch ID Description PHKL32430Release Notes PreinstallationProduct licensing Setting Path and Manpath environment variables Secure communicationRequirements Veritas Enterprise AdministratorPrerequisites Alternatively, remove the file /sbin/init.d/vmsa-serverInstalling the product Enter 1, 2 or 3 to be installed on all systems If you want to use rsh you must specify on the command lineEnter one or more system names to install Sfcfs Change directory to /dvdromConfiguring the Components Do you want to add another user to the cluster? y,n,q y Response file Using the log filesInstallation log file Summary fileEtc/llthosts Verifying the configuration filesLow Latency Transport configuration files Etc/llttabOutput resembles Checking Low Latency Transport operationLog into system02 # lltstat -p Checking Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast operation Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast configuration filesEtc/gabtab Checking cluster operation Output for an Sfcfs HA installation resemblesEnter the following command on any systems See the hastatus1M manualVerifying the configuration files #System Attribute Value Configuring VCS Verifying agent configurationSynchronizing time on Cluster File Systems Typical VCS configuration file for Sfcfs file resembles Main.cf fileVCS application failover services Sfcfs HA OnlyVCS application failover services Upgrading the product Upgrade paths Preparing to upgrade the productPlanning the upgrade Complete the following tasks in advance of upgradingMP1 Phased upgrade Upgrade OverviewFull upgrade Upgrading from 3.5 to Change to the top-level directory on the disc# hastart Remove VRTSweb Replace it withRun through , , , and on rest of the nodes to be upgraded See the Veritas Cluster Server Installation Guide Run the following command on all the nodes to start VCS Upgrading from 4.1 to Install all the prerequisite patches and reboot the machines Etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config/main.cf file Full upgrade Etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config/main.cf file Upgrading the disk layout versions # umount /mnt1 Upgrading the disk layout versions Adding and removing a node Adding a node to a cluster Enter y to install Sfcfs on these systemsEnter the system name of the new node to install Sfcfs Change to the Sfcfs directoryEnter 1 or 2 to be installed on all systems Start VxVM on the system that has been addedOpen the VCS configuration for writing Configuring Sfcfs and CVM agents on the new nodeRun the following command Write the new VCS configuration to diskRemoving a node from a cluster Add shared disk groups to the cluster configurationCreate a /mnt on system03 and run the following commands Put the CVM resources back online, in the following order# rm /etc/vxfentab # rm /etc/vxfendg # ./uninstallsfcfs Removing a node from a cluster Enter the system names to uninstall Sfcfs Enter y to uninstall SfcfsUninstalling the product Installation issues Incorrect permissions for root on remote systemInaccessible system Storage Foundation Cluster File System problemsResource temporarily unavailable Unmount failures Mount failuresIf this error message displays Command failuresPerformance issues Following error message displaysHigh availability issues Network partition/jeopardyLow memory

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