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 Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars (A.04.xx & A.05.xx) Environment

Chapter 4

Updating from vPars A.04.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars (A.04.xx

& A.05.xx) Environment

This section describes how to update an existing A.04.xx vPars environment to a mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3

vPars environment; a mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars environment contains both vPars A.04.xx/11.23 and

A.05.xx/11.31 virtual partitions in the same nPartition.For information on using a mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3

vPars environment, see “Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environments in vPars A.05.xx” on page 66. For

information on the typical time needed to update the OS version, see the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and

Update Guide.

For information on vPars and OS versions, see the HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Conﬁguration

Guide.

CAUTION In a mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars environment, the vPars A.04.xx virtual partitions must be

running vPars A.04.02 or later.

CAUTION Designated-Admin Feature and mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environments

Within a mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars environment, only the virtual partitions containing

vPars A.05.01 can modify other virtual partitions via the vparmodify command, and only

virtual partitions containing vPars A.05.01 can vparcreate and vparremove other virtual

partitions. If you use the designated-admin feature and conﬁgure only virtual partitions

containing vPars A.04.02 as designated-admin virtual partitions, no virtual partitions will be

able to modify other virtual partitions.

For information on using a mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars environment, see “Mixed HP-UX 11i

v2/v3 vPars Environments in vPars A.05.xx” on page 66.

Note that this process works only using Update-UX and a corresponding Ignite-UX depot; it does not work by

directly using the OE and vPars media. If you wish to install directly from media, you should use the

instructions from any of the following:

• “Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on PA-RISC” on page 111

• “Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on Integrity” on page 113

• “Installing vPars with Software Distributor” on page 116

Update-UX Primer

Update-UX allows for both the OE and vPars bundles to be updated in the same session. Note that the OE

and vPars bundles need to be in the same source depot.

The advantages of using Update-UX are (1) you can update both OE and vPars versions simultaneously, so

there are fewer reboots, and (2) although you must still reboot the nPartition, you can perform these steps

within a vPars environment; you do not need to boot the system into standalone mode.

Before using the update-ux command, make sure you have the latest OS-appropriate Update-UX bundle

installed for each virtual partition (this is included in the update steps):

# swinstall -s <source_depot> Update-UX

After the latest Update-UX bundle has been installed, you can use the update-ux command, the syntax is