HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.03.05 and A.04.05)

11. Update the remaining virtual partitions to vPars A.03.05.
How you perform the remaining updates will depend on whether you are doing parallel or
staggered updates.
a. If updating all virtual partitions in parallel then perform the following steps.
i. On all remaining virtual partitions:
• If the HP-UX Operating Environment must also be updated, use Update-UX
to install the latest OE and the vPars A.03.05 bundle to the virtual partition.
In the following example the target OS will be HP-UX 11.11 (the
HPUX11i-OE-Ent Enterprise OE bundle) and vPars will be updated to vPars
A.03.05 (the T1335AC bundle).
azure2 # update-ux -s depot1:/release/1111/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335AC
• If only the vPars bundle needs to be updated, use the swinstall command
to install vPars A.03.05.
In the following example vPars will be updated to vPars A.03.05 (the T1335AC
bundle).
azure2 # swinstall -s depot1:/release/1111/VirtualPartitions T1335AC
ii. Wait for the vPars A.03.05 update process to complete.
Monitor the installation logs until the virtual partitions halt.
To monitor the log files, first login to the virtual partition being updated (for
example, use telnet) and then use the tail -f command to view the current
installation status being written to the /var/adm/sw/swagent.log file or
swinstall.log file.
b. If updating virtual partitions in a staggered manner, then perform the following steps.
i. Wait for the HP-UX 11i v2 and vPars A.04.05 updates to complete.
ii. After the vPars A.04.05 updates complete, update all but one of the remaining virtual
partitions to vPars A.03.05.
If possible, select a virtual partition that requires only vPars A.03.05 (and not also
an OE update) to be the “last virtual partition”, which will be the last one to be
updated and will be used to monitor progress of the other virtual partition updates.
On all virtual partitions except the last virtual partition:
• If the OE must also be updated, use Update-UX to install the latest OE and the
vPars bundle to the virtual partition.
• If only the vPars bundle needs to be updated, use swinstall to install vPars
A.03.05.
iii. Wait for the vPars A.03.05 updates to complete on all but the last virtual partition.
Monitor the installation logs until the virtual partitions halt.
To monitor the log files, first login to the virtual partition being updated (for
example, use telnet) and then use the tail -f command to view the current
installation status being written to the /var/adm/sw/swagent.log file or
swinstall.log file.
iv. On the last virtual partition, update the HP-UX Operating Environment, if needed,
and update the vPars bundle.
• If the OE must also be updated, use Update-UX to install the latest OE and the
vPars bundle to the virtual partition.
• If only the vPars bundle needs to be updated, use swinstall to install vPars
A.03.05.
• On the last virtual partition, wait for the vPars A.03.05 update to complete.
90 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars