H06.07 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide

Contents

H06.07 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide—543449-001

2. Upgrade Checklist

Managing Microcode and Firmware for Integrity NonStop NS-Series

Servers (continued)

Managing NonStop Cluster Switch Firmware 1-22

H06.07 Installation, Migration, and Fallback Considerations 1-23

Code Coverage Utilities 1-23

Kernel-Managed Swap File (KMSF) 1-24

IOAM and Migrating Existing Data to an Enterprise Storage System (ESS) 1-24

NonStop SQL/MX 1-25

OSS Large Files 1-25

Additional OSS Issues 1-29

Minimum Memory Requirements 1-30

PSTATE (T0705H01) and WHOHAS (T0706H01) 1-30

SANMAN and SNETMON 1-30

Remote Database Facility (RDF) 1-31

HP Tandem Failure Data System (TFDS) 1-31

TMF 3.3 1-31

TS/MP 2.1 1-32

Visual Inspect 1-32

ServerNet Cluster 1-32

SMF 1-33

Backup/Restore 2 1-34

TNS/R Compilers and Tools on H-Series Systems 1-35

NetBatch 1-36

Safeguard 1-36

Backing Out the DSM/SCM Revision 1-39

IPs That Become SUT Products on H-Series 1-40

2. Upgrade Checklist

H06.07 Upgrade Checklist 2-1

H06.07 Required Information Checklist 2-3

H06.07 Fallback SPRs 2-4

3. Preparing to Upgrade the Server Software (Preinstallation

Tasks)

Back Up Important Files 3-1

Back Up NonStop SQL/MP 3-1

Back Up NonStop SQL/MX files 3-1

Back Up Spooler Control files 3-2

Back Up TMF Files 3-2

Record the Current SYSnn 3-2