HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.05.02)

Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars

Updating from vPars A.04.xx to A.05.xx

Chapter 4

If you are unfamiliar with the Update-UX product or would like information on using or

debugging Update-UX, please read the HP-UX 11.31 or 11.23 Installation and Update Guide.

Also, see the applicable Software Distributor and Ignite-UX documents available at

http://docs.hp.com.

OE Bundle Names for Update-UX

For HP-UX 11i v3, the possible OE bundles are listed below.

HPUX11i-OE Foundation OE

HPUX11i-OE-Ent Enterprise OE

HPUX11i-OE-MC Mission Critical OE

When choosing the OE, you should select the same OE that your virtual partition is running. Use the

swinstall command to check which OE you are currently running:

# swlist -l bundle | grep -i OE

HPUX11i-OE-Ent B.11.31 HP-UX Enterprise Operating Environment

This shows that you are running an Enterprise OE.

The Update Process: Goal

In the example below, we begin with three virtual partitions, all running vPars A.04.01:

• the ﬁrst partition keira1 running vPars A.04.01 (on 11.23)

• the second partition keira2 running vPars A.04.01 (on 11.23)

• the third partition keira3 running vPars A.04.01 (on 11.23)

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.

We wish to update to the following:

• keira1 running A.05.01 (on 11.31)

• keira2 running A.05.01 (on 11.31)

• keira3 running A.05.01 (on 11.31)

The Update Process

To update vPars from A.04.xx to A.05.xx, follow the process below. The following steps should be done from

the console:

1. Make sure that all the virtual partitions are up. You can check this with vparstatus.

Example:

keira1# vparstatus

[Virtual Partition]

Boot

Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts

============================== ===== ============ ======================= =====

keira1 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix

keira2 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix

keira3 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix