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.03.xx to A.04.xx

Chapter 4

Bundle Names

• For HP-UX 11i v2, the possible OE bundles are listed below.

HPUX11i-OE Foundation OE

HPUX11i-OE-Ent Enterprise OE

HPUX11i-OE-MC Mission Critical OE

You should chose the same OE that your current virtual partition is running. Use the swinstall

command to check which OE you are currently running:

# swlist -l bundle | grep -i OE

HPUX11i-OE-Ent B.11.23.0505 HP-UX Enterprise Operating Environment

• T1335BC is the vPars A.04.xx bundle.

NOTE Be sure that both the OE and vPars bundles are speciﬁed on the update-ux command line.

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/0505.1123/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335BC

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 for reboot. 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, 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/0505.1123/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335BC

7. Reboot the nPartition to ISL>

Example:

MON> reboot

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 in the next step.