HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.03.04) (previously titled Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions)

Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars
Updating from vPars A.03.xx -> A.04.xx
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Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts
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keira1 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
keira2 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix
keira3 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
2. Record the current autoboot and autosearch settings of all the virtual partitions so that you can
change back to these settings later. To find the current settings, use vparstatus.
Example:
keira1 # vparstatus
[Virtual Partition]
Boot
Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts
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keira1 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
keira2 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix
keira3 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
3. Turn autoboot and autosearch settings off using vparmodify for all the virtual partitions.
Example:
keira1 # vparmodify -p keira1 -B manual
keira1 # vparmodify -p keira1 -B nosearch
keira1 # vparmodify -p keira2 -B manual
keira1 # vparmodify -p keira2 -B nosearch
keira1 # vparmodify -p keira3 -B manual
keira1 # vparmodify -p keira3 -B nosearch
Note that the -B nosearch option is valid for only vPars A.03.02 and later. If you are using an earlier
version of vPars, you can skip the vparmodify ... -B nosearch command.
4. Install the latest Update-UX bundle onto each virtual partition (use Ctrl-A to switch between consoles).
Note that this does not update the operating system, only the Update-UX bundle. Example:
keira1 # swinstall -s depot1:/release/0505.1123/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD Update-UX
keira2 # swinstall -s depot1:/release/0505.1123/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD Update-UX
keira3 # swinstall -s depot1:/release/0505.1123/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD Update-UX
5. For each virtual partition, except the first virtual partition, use Update-UX to install the latest OE and
vPars bundle. These updates can occur in parallel, although this is not required.
The first virtual partition is defined as the virtual partition that owns the boot disk from which the
Monitor was booted; you can use the vparstatus -m and vparstatus -v commands to determine which
virtual partition this is.
Although you can update all the virtual partitions, including the first virtual partition, in parallel, by
leaving the first virtual partition up until all the updates for the other virtual partitions are complete, it
allows you to use the first virtual partition to verify the processing and status of the other virtual
partitions.
Example:
keira2 # update-ux -s depot1:/release/0505.1123/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335BC
keira3 # update-ux -s depot1:/release/0505.1123/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335BC