H06.05 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide

Overview of Installing the H06.05 RVU
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H06.05 Installation, Migration, and Fallback
Considerations
H06.05 Installation, Migration, and Fallback
Considerations
See the Readme file and the appropriate softdocs for the latest information on any
migration or configuration steps.
Kernel-Managed Swap File (KMSF)
Integrity NonStop NS-series servers require more swap space than do NonStop
S-series servers. The default is 512 megabytes for each processor. Depending on your
hardware and software configuration, more swap space might be needed. Using
KMSF, monitor the actual virtual memory consumption. To check the size of the
configured swap files for each processor, at a TACL prompt, start NSKCOM and enter
the STATUS SWAPFILE command. For more information on commands and usage,
see the Kernel-Managed Swap Facility (KMSF) Manual.
IOAM and Migrating Existing Data to an Enterprise Storage
System ( ESS)
G-series application programs that reside on an ESS and are run on a NonStop
S-series system might require migration changes to run on an Integrity NonStop
NS-series server and H-series RVU. For more information, refer to the H-Series
Application Migration Guide.
The migration of existing data from internal SCSI-attached, 514-byte sector disks to
industry standard, 512-byte sector disk subsystems includes an improved method for
checksum protection. The new checksum protection method employed for unstructured
files requires the data stored on disk be contiguous and aligned in units of 28 kilobytes.
When a nonpartitioned unstructured file is created or migrated to an ESS, the extent
sizes are rounded up to a mod-14 boundary, since an extent page is 2 KB. Rounding
ensures continuity of the data set protected by the checksum. This design ensures the
best possible performance for unstructured files, without adding significant overhead
for checksums. Each 28 KB of data is protected with a 4-KB check block, which
contains the checksum information.
Partitioned unstructured files cannot be migrated to an ESS without first performing a
migration of all partitions of the unstructured file set to a mod-14 extent boundary.
Partitioned unstructured files must use the same extent size and maximum extents for
all partitions because positioning is dependent upon a consistent size for each of the
partitions. Online migration attempts will abort when an unstructured partitioned file
without mod-14 extent sizes is present on the source disk.
Before migrating to an ESS, rebuild all partitions, using a mod-14 extent size. Perform
an offline copy to a new partition set.