Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.04.02)

Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars

Updating from vPars A.04.xx to A.04.xx

Chapter 4

Updating from vPars A.04.xx to A.04.xx

This section covers how to update from an earlier version of vPars A.04.xx to the latest version of vPars

A.04.xx.

NOTE The process documented here assumes you are not performing a hardware upgrade that causes

a change in hardware paths (for example, upgrading from the sx1000 chipset to the sx2000

chipset). For information on upgrading vPars when the upgrade includes a hardware path

change, please see “Upgrading Servers from the sx1000 to sx2000 Chipset (Integrity)” on

page 86.

Step 1. Save a copy of your vPars database in case you need to revert back to the earlier version of vPars or

you need to restore the database. The default location is /stand/vpdb.

Example:

keira1# cp /stand/vpdb /stand/vpdb.b4.update

Step 2. Make sure all the vPars are up and running. This allows you to update all the virtual partitions to

the same vPars version; mixing vPars versions with A.04.01 and A.04.02 is not supported.

Example:

keira1 # vparstatus

[Virtual Partition]

Boot

Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts

============================== ===== ============ ======================= =====

keira1 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix

keira2 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix

keira3 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix

Step 3. Record the current autoboot and autosearch attributes of all the virtual partitions.

Example:

keira1 # vparstatus

[Virtual Partition]

Boot

Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts

============================== ===== ============ ======================= =====

keira1 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix

keira2 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix

keira3 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix

Step 4. Turn off the autoboot and autosearch attributes for all the virtual partitions.

Example:

keira1 # vparmodify -p keira1 -B manual -B nosearch

keira1 # vparmodify -p keira2 -B manual -B nosearch

keira1 # vparmodify -p keira3 -B manual -B nosearch