D Software Upgrades

There are five types of upgrade you can do:

rolling upgrade

rolling upgrade using DRD

non-rolling upgrade

non-rolling upgrade using DRD

migration with cold install Each of these is discussed below.

Special Considerations for Upgrade to Serviceguard A.11.20

Before you proceed, read the sections Upgrading from an Earlier Serviceguard Release and Rolling Upgrade in the latest version of the release notes for A.11.20

Serviceguard A.11.20 is supported on HP–UX 11i v3 only.

You can perform a rolling upgrade from A.11.19 to a later release, or from an earlier release to A.11.19, but you cannot do a rolling upgrade from a pre-A.11.19 release to a post-A.11.19 release.

This is because A.11.19 is the only version of Serviceguard that will allow both the older version of the cluster manager and the new version (introduced in A.11.19) to coexist during a rolling upgrade.

If you are upgrading from a pre-A.11.19 release: Start by reading Upgrading from an Earlier Serviceguard Release and Rolling Upgrade in the release notes. Then, if you decide to upgrade to A.11.19 in preparation for a rolling upgrade to A.11.20, continue with the subsection that follows; it provides information on, and instructions for, upgrading to A.11.19.

Special Considerations for Upgrade to Serviceguard A.11.19

You can skip this section if you are already running A.11.19.

Serviceguard A.11.19 introduces a new cluster manager. In a running cluster, this affects node timeout and failover and cluster re-formation; see the discussion of MEMBER_TIMEOUT under “Cluster Configuration Parameters ” (page 109) for more information. There is also a one-time effect on upgrade to Serviceguard A.11.19.

Upgrade will trigger a cluster membership transition from the old to the new cluster manager when the last node in the cluster has been upgraded to A.11.19. This transition can take up to one second, during which time the old cluster manager will shut down and the new cluster manager will start.

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