HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, September 2009 (Update 5 Release)

IMPORTANT: For important information regarding a known problem with installing
VxVM, see vxesd may dump core after cold-installing HP-UX 11i v3 September 2009
and VxVM 5.0, located in Appendix A: “Known install and update problems” (page 91).
Supported VxFS 5.0 and VxVM 5.0 installations are achievable with proper selections
in the Ignite-UX tool. The following sections describe the steps required to get to each
possible configuration.
• “VxVM and VxFS installation through cold-install” (page 116)
• “VxVM and VxFS installation with update-ux” (page 116)
VxVM and VxFS installation through cold-install
The following sections describe the steps required for each supported cold-install
configuration.
LVM with VxFS 5.0 configuration
A default cold-install will result in an LVM system with VxFS 5.0 and OnlineJFS 5.0
installed (OnlineJFS will NOT be installed with the BOE). No additional selections in
the IUX user interface (UI) are needed to cold-install this configuration.
VxVM 5.0 with VxFS 5.0 configuration
To cold-install VxVM with VxFS, manually select the VxVM with VxFS environment
(in the Ignite-UX Basic tab) and manually select VxVM 5.0 [Base-VxVM-50] in the
Software tab for install. You MUST do both (explicitly select the VxVM “environment”
and the VxVM 5.0 bundle [Base-VxVM-50]) or Ignite-UX will fail with this error:
ERROR: The system has VxVM configured, but the VERITAS Volume Manager software was not
selected for loading. You are required to load it in order for the installation to succeed.
Use the software selection screen to mark the appropriate VxVM software for loading.
VxVM and VxFS installation with update-ux
All of the configurations described in “VxVM and VxFS installation through cold-install”
(page 116) can also be achieved during OEUR updates using update-ux. Just like
cold-install, the update process will default to VxFS 5.0 with LVM.
To install the VxFS 5.0 and VxVM 5.0 configurations noted in the previous section,
simply make sure that the desired bundles are selected in update-ux. To do so, use
the following command:
update-ux -s depot_path Base-VxFS-50 Base-VxVM-50
VxVM considerations As with other installs, updates to September 2008 OEUR and
beyond will not install VxVM by default. You must explicitly select VxVM 5.0 in the
update-ux command line to install VxVM.
If VxVM is not selected for installation during update and VxVM is currently not in
use, update scripts built into the September 2008 OEUR and beyond will automatically
remove any unused older versions of VxVM from your system.
116 Installing VxFS and VxVM