HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.07) (5900-1229, September 2010)

The nPartition number is 0. Record this information.
b. Find the boot path of the boot disk of a future vPars A.05.01 virtual partition. This boot
path will become the nPartition’s new PRI boot path.
Since keira3 is being updated to A.05.01, let’s chose to change the nPartition’s PRI path
to the boot disk of keira3.
Since we have chosen keira3 as the future A.05.01 virtual partition, we need to find the
boot path of keira3:
keira1# vparstatus -v -p keira3
...
[IO Details]
0.0.6
0.0.6.0.0.5.0 BOOT
The BOOT attribute identifies the boot path for the virtual partition keira3 as
0.0.6.0.0.5.0. Record this information.
c. Set the mode for the next nPartition reboot.
• on Integrity, set the mode to nPars for the next reboot: # vparenv -m nPars
• on PA, no mode setting is required.
The remainder of the steps to change the PRI boot path will be done later, while in
nPars/standalone mode.
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.
Example where target OS will be 11.31, which implies vPars A.05.xx:
keira3 # update-ux -s depot1:/release/1131/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335CC
Example where target OS will be 11.23, which implies vPars A.04.xx:
keira2 # update-ux -s depot1:/release/1123/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335BC
Be sure that both the OE and vPars bundles are specified on the update-ux command line.
CAUTION:
Using Update-UX Update-UX allows for both the OE and vPars bundles to be updated in
the same session. To simultaneously update both the OE and vPars bundles in the same
session, they both must be in the same source depot.
If you update from a depot which does not contain the vPars bundle, your disk will no
longer boot in vPars mode. See the Ignite-UX Administration Guide and Using Golden Images
with Virtual Partitions for information on how to setup your Ignite-UX server.
NOTE: 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.
Further, if you need to change the primary path in stable storage, you will use the first virtual
partition to enter into standalone/nPars mode and change the PRI boot path.
6. After the all updates for the above virtual partitions have completed, use Update-UX to
install the latest OE and vPars bundle to the first virtual partition.
Example:
keira1 # update-ux -s depot1:/release/1131/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335CC
Although you can do all the updates in parallel, you need to make sure that all of the other
virtual partition updates have successfully performed the updating to the point of halting.
104 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars