Veritas 5.0.1 Installation Guide HP-UX 11i v3 (5900-2464, September 2012)

9 Removing Veritas 5.0.1 Products
This chapter discusses how to remove the Veritas 5.0.1 suite of products from an HP-UX 11i v3
system, using the HP-UX SD commands.
This chapter addresses the following topics:
• “Removing Storage Management for Oracle” (page 74)
• “Removing VxVM” (page 74)
• “Removing VxFS” (page 76)
• “Removing CVM” (page 77)
• “Removing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) Client” (page 77)
CAUTION: If VxVM/VxFS 5.0.1 is installed on a system that contained VxVM/VxFS 4.1 previously,
the 4.1 version of VxVM and VxFS will be removed from the system. Removing 5.0.1 products
later makes the system unbootable.
NOTE: You must remove the SMO bundles before VxFS and VxVM bundles.
Removing Storage Management for Oracle
This section discusses the swremove command to remove the HP SMO Standard bundle (T2789DB).
To remove the T2789DB bundle, enter the following command:
# swremove T2789DB
Removing VxVM
VxVM 5.0.1 can be removed from systems only if the root disk is under HP Logical Volume Manager
(LVM) control. If you try to remove VxVM 5.0.1 software from your system without completing the
following steps, you will lose data and your system will be in an unusable state.
The following steps provide an overview of the VxVM removal procedure:
• Back-up data on your system.
• Modify file systems and other applications that use volumes to use disks or LVM volumes.
• Remove copies of file systems to free up as much space as possible.
• Remove plexes, except one.
• Striped or spanned volumes must be moved to a single disk or to an appropriate LVM volume.
• Shut down VxVM.
This section addresses the following topics:
• “Moving VxVM Volumes to LVM Volumes” (page 74)
• “Removing Plexes” (page 75)
• “Shutting Down VxVM” (page 76)
• “Removing Full VxVM (B9116DB)” (page 76)
• “Removing Base-VxVM-501” (page 76)
Moving VxVM Volumes to LVM Volumes
To move VxVM volumes to LVM, complete the following steps:
74 Removing Veritas 5.0.1 Products