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
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a. Find the nPartition partition number for the current nPartition:
keira1# parstatus -w
The local partition number is 0.
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
NOTE Be sure that both the OE and vPars bundles are specified on the update-ux command line.
When using Update-UX to update vPars, you must update in this manner, in which case
you are updating both the OS and vPars version with the same command line.
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.