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

The Update Process for Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments: Step by Step
Details
This section describes how to update a vPars A.03.xx environment to a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2
vPars environment running vPars A.03.05 and A.04.05.
The Update Process: Goal In the examples used in this section, we begin with three virtual
partitions, all running vPars A.03.02:
• The first partition, azure1, is running vPars A.03.02 (on 11.11).
• The second partition, azure2, is running vPars A.03.02 (on 11.11).
• The third partition, azure3, is running vPars A.03.02 (on 11.11).
We wish to update to the following:
• azure1 running vPars A.04.05 (on 11.23).
• azure2 running vPars A.03.05 (on 11.11).
• azure3 running vPars A.04.05 (on 11.23).
The first virtual partition is defined as the virtual partition that owns the boot disk from which
the vPars Monitor was booted. You can use the vparstatus -m and vparstatus -v commands
to determine which virtual partition this is. When upgrading to a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars
environment, the first virtual partition must have vPars A.04.05 installed.
Procedure 4-2 Update Process for Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments
The following steps should be done from the vPars console after backing up all virtual partitions
and establishing a depot with the required HP-UX OE and vPars versions.
1. Make sure that all the virtual partitions are up.
You can check this with the vparstatus command.
azure1# vparstatus
[Virtual Partition]
Boot
Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts
============================== ===== ============ ======================= =====
azure1 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
azure2 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix
azure3 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
2. Record the current autoboot and autosearch settings of all the virtual partitions.
You will need to restore these settings later. To find the current settings, use vparstatus.
azure1 # vparstatus
[Virtual Partition]
Boot
Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts
============================== ===== ============ ======================= =====
azure1 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
azure2 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix
azure3 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
Auto indicates autoboot is set, Manl indicates manual boot is set, and Nsr indicates “no
search”.
TIP: In this example, we are updating all the virtual partitions. However, if you have
virtual partitions that already meet the mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars requirements (vPars
A.03.05 or later) and are not updating those virtual partitions, you can skip the update steps
for those virtual partitions.
3. Change the autoboot setting to manual for all virtual partitions.
Use the vparmodify -p vparname -B manual command, where vparname is the name
of the virtual partition.
This step must be performed to avoid automatically rebooting into the wrong vPars Monitor.
Updating from vPars A.03.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars (A.03.05 and A.04.05) Environment 91