Veritas 5.0.1 Installation Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Upgrading from VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX
11i v3
You must consider the following guideline prior to upgrading to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3:
• All disk group versions supported by VxVM 5.0.1 (90, 120, and 140) on HP-UX 11i v2 are
also supported by VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3.
As VxVM 5.0 and VxFS 5.0 are bundled in the HP-UX 11i March 2009 OEUR or later release, a
fresh installation is not possible. You must perform an upgrade to move to the 5.0.1 versions of
the Veritas products.
After you install the 5.0.1 software, the Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 software that was bundled
with the HP-UX Operating Environment will no longer be available. To reinstall Veritas Volume
Manager 5.0, you must use your HP-UX software CD/DVD. As only one version of the Veritas
Volume Manager can reside on your system, if you choose to reinstall Veritas Volume Manager
5.0, the 5.0.1 software will no longer be available.
Installing the 5.0.1 Veritas software updates Veritas File System 5.0. After installing the 5.0.1
version of Veritas File System, to revert to the 5.0 version, you must remove the 5.0.1 version
and then re-install the 5.0 version. The 5.0 and 5.0.1 versions of Veritas File System cannot coexist.
To Upgrade from VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3
To upgrade from VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3, complete the
following steps:
1. Stop activity to all VxVM volumes. For example, stop applications such as databases that
access the volumes, and unmount any file systems that have been created on the volumes.
2. Convert the VxVM root device volumes into LVM root device volumes.
3. Upgrade from HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v3. For more information on upgrading to HP-UX
11i v3, see the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide at: http://www.docs.hp.com.
4. If patches to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3 are required, the patches must be applied prior
to upgrading the product.
5. Install the VxVm 5.0.1 package.
# swinstall –x autoreboot=true Base-VxVM-501
Upon successful completion of the upgrade, VxVM 5.0 (for HP-UX 11i v2) is replaced by VxVM
5.0.1 (for HP-UX 11i v3). Disk groups created in VxVM 5.0 for HP-UX 11i v2 are accessible after
the upgrade. If you have converted the VxVM root volumes into LVM root devices, then you
must convert them back into VxVM root volumes.
NOTE: During the OS upgrade, the following errors will be reported. However these errors
can be ignored and the OS upgrade will complete successfully.
ERROR: A later revision (one with a higher revision number) of fileset "VRTSvxvm.VXVM-KRN,r=4.1.032" has already
been installed.
ERROR: A later revision (one with a higher revision number) of fileset "VRTSvxvm.VXVM-RUN,r=4.1.032" has already
been installed.
Alternatively you can upgrade from VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2 to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i
v3 without removing the VxVM 5.0 package on HP-UX 11i v2.
To upgrade to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3 without removing VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2
To upgrade to VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3 without removing the VxVM 5.0 package on HP-UX
11i v2, complete the following steps:
1. Copy the depot to a depot server.
62 Upgrading from Previous Versions of VxVM to VxVM 5.0.1