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

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. In the next step, the

entire nPartition will be rebooted; if the other virtual partitions are still in progress of updating, the OS

instances may be in an unknown state.

NOTE If the BOOT and ALTBOOT disks are a mirrored pair, updating is not required on the

ALTBOOT disk. Otherwise, if you wish to have the alternate boot disk updated, after

updating the OS on the primary boot path disk, boot the virtual partitions from the

alternate path boot disk and repeat the update-ux procedure. For example, if keira2 has an

alternate boot disk that is not a mirror of the primary boot disk, and you wish to update the

OS on the alternate boot disk, boot keira2 from the alternate boot path using:

MON> vparload -p keira2 -B ALT

and repeat the update-ux procedure:

keira2# update-ux -s depot1:/release/1123/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335BC

7. Reboot the nPartition.

Example:

MON> reboot

On Integrity, if you need to change the PRI boot path, reboot in nPars mode:

MON> reboot npars

NOTE At this point, you need to reboot the nPartition from the MON> prompt, not just the virtual

partition. By rebooting the nPartition, you can load the new vPars Monitor.

8. If you need to change the PRI boot path, follow the procedure below. Otherwise, proceed to the next

step.

a. Interrupt the boot up process and enter into standalone (PA) or nPars (Integrity) mode:

Example for PA-RISC:

BCH> bo pri

interact with IPL: y

ISL> hpux /stand/vmunix

Example for Integrity:

Shell> fs0:

fs0:\> hpux

HPUX> boot vmunix

b. Change the nPartition’s PRI path to the boot path of the future A.05.01 partition recorded earlier.

Example: