HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.07) (5900-1229, September 2010)

Updating from vPars A.04.xx to A.05.xx
This section describes how to update an existing A.04.xx vPars on 11iv2 (11.23) environment to
a vPars A.05.xx vPars environment on 11iv3 (11.31). For information on vPars and OS versions,
see the HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide. For information on the typical
time needed to update the OS version, see the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide. The
process is similar to updating from A.03.xx to A.04.xx.
If you wish to upgrade to a mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars environment (vPars A.04.xx/11.23 and
vPars A.05.xx/11.31 in the same nPartition), see “Updating from vPars A.04.xx to Mixed HP-UX
11i v2/v3 vPars (A.04.xx and A.05.xx) Environment” (page 100).
This process works only using Update-UX and a corresponding Ignite-UX depot; it does not
work by directly using the OE and vPars media. If you wish to install directly from media, you
should use the instructions from any of the following:
• “Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on PA-RISC” (page 118)
• “Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on Integrity” (page 120)
• “Installing vPars with Software Distributor ” (page 122)
Update-UX Preparation Steps
The advantages of using Update-UX are 1) you can update both OE and vPars versions
simultaneously, so there are fewer reboots, and 2) although you must still reboot the nPartition,
you can perform these steps within a vPars environment; you do not need to boot the system
into standalone mode.
CAUTION:
Using Update-UX Update-UX allows for both the OE and vPars bundles to be updated in the
same session. To simultaneously update both the OE and vPars bundles in the same session,
they both must be in the same source depot.
If you update from a depot which does not contain the vPars bundle, your disk will no longer
boot in vPars mode. See the Ignite-UX Administration Guide and Using Golden Images with Virtual
Partitions for information on how to setup your Ignite-UX server.
NOTE: Before using the update-ux command, make sure you have the latest Update-UX
bundle installed for each virtual partition:
# swinstall -s source_depot Update-UX
After the latest Update-UX bundle has been installed, you can use the update-ux command.
The syntax is:
# update-ux -s source_depot OE_bundle vPars_bundle
80 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars