HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, March 2012

IMPORTANT: When OnlineJFS 5.0.1 (B3929GB) is selected in the preceding scenario, the
following warning from update-ux might be seen during selection time:
WARNING: The following was found while selecting software:
- There are new revisions of SW available in the source that would update SW already installed on the system.
The newer revisions are not selected for installation. This could leave the incompatible old revision of SW on
the system. The affected SW is:
- OnlineJFS.VXFS41-AD-RN,r=B.11.31 replaces
OnlineJFS01.VXFS41-AD-RN,r=4.1.004
What to do
This warning can be safely ignored. The update will complete successfully despite this warning.
This harmless message is also listed in Appendix A: “Harmless messages and known problems”
(page 72)
Other supported configurations
If you want to remain on VxFS and VxVM versions 4.1, 5.0, or 5.1SP1 (available separately), see
the white paper “Installation of non-default VxFS and VxVM software version on HP-UX 11i v3
March 2012 Operating Environment Update Release” at http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs. The
paper includes detailed instructions for the following supported configurations and other
considerations:
• LVM with VxFS 4.1 Configuration
• VxVM 4.1 with VxFS 4.1 Configuration
• Updates from HP-UX 11i v2 with OnlineJFS 4.1 to HP-UX 11i v3 with OnlineJFS 4.1
• Updates to HP-UX 11i v3 with VxVM 4.1
• LVM with VxFS 5.0 Configuration
• VxVM 5.0 with VxFS 5.0 Configuration
• Updates from HP-UX 11i v2 with OnlineJFS 5.0 to HP-UX 11i v3 with OnlineJFS 5.0
• Updates to HP-UX 11i v3 with VxVM 5.0
• LVM with VxFS 5.1SP1 Configuration
• VxVM 5.1SP1 with VxFS 5.1SP1 Configuration
• Updates from HP-UX 11i v2 with OnlineJFS 5.0 to HP-UX 11i v3 with OnlineJFS 5.1SP1
• Updates to HP-UX 11i v3 with VxVM 5.1SP1
Unsupported system configurations
Many different configurations are selectable at update time, but not all of them will result in
supported system configurations. For this reason, pre-update scripts built into the September 2011
OEUR and beyond will block certain updates before they start. This will prevent updates into
unstable configurations. The scripts will print an error message, and the error can be resolved by
restarting the update with different software selections.
For example, if your existing 11i v3 system has VxFS 4.1 and VxVM 4.1 configured, and you
attempt to update to the September 2011 OEUR (and beyond) with only VxFS 5.0.1 selected, the
OEUR scripts will block the update. This is done because this update would result in a system that
has VxFS 5.0.1 and VxVM 4.1 installed—an unsupported combination of versions. To resolve this
error, simply restart the update after selecting both VxFS 5.0.1 and VxVM 5.0.1 in update-ux,
so that the update results in matching 11i v3 versions of VxFS and VxVM.
Other unsupported paths will also be blocked by the scripts of September 2011 OEUR (and
beyond), and can be resolved in similar ways. (The other most common blocked update occurs
when HP-UX 11i v2 VxVM is in use on a system but you have forgotten to select VxVM 5.0.1 at
update time.)
Other supported configurations 83