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

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

This section describes how to update an existing A.04.xx vPars on 11iv2 (11.23) environment to a vPars

A.05.xx vPars environment on 11iv3 (11.31). For information on vPars and OS versions, see the HP-UX

Virtual Partitions Ordering and Conﬁguration Guide. For information on the typical time needed to update

the OS version, see the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide.

The process is similar to updating from A.03.xx to A.04.xx. If you wish to upgrade to a mixed HP-UX 11i

v2/v3 vPars environment (vPars A.04.xx/11.23 & vPars A.05.xx/11.31 in the same nPartition), see

“Updating from vPars A.04.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars (A.04.xx & A.05.xx) Environment”

on page 87.

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 Preparation Steps

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

# update-ux -s <source_depot> <OE_bundle> <vPars_bundle>

For example, the command line used in this section is

# update-ux -s depot1:/release/1131/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335CC

where

depot1:/release/1131/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD is the source depot

HPUX11i-OE-Ent is the OE bundle

T1335CC is the vPars A.05.xx bundle.

Since both the OE and vPars bundle are the parameters for update-ux, both the OE (including the OS

version) and the vPars version are updated in this single step.

NOTE When using the 11.31 binaries for update-ux, there is now a -p (preview) option similar to the

swinstall preview option.