Storage Foundation 7.2 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Solaris
- Section I. Introduction and configuration of Storage Foundation
- Section II. Upgrade of Storage Foundation
- Planning to upgrade Storage Foundation
- About the upgrade
- Supported upgrade paths
- Preparing to upgrade SF
- Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade full releases (base, maintenance, rolling patch), and individual patches
- Upgrading Storage Foundation
- Performing an automated SF upgrade using response files
- Upgrading SF using Boot Environment upgrade
- Performing post-upgrade tasks
- Optional configuration steps
- Recovering VVR if automatic upgrade fails
- Resetting DAS disk names to include host name in FSS environments
- Upgrading disk layout versions
- Upgrading VxVM disk group versions
- Updating variables
- Setting the default disk group
- Upgrading the Array Support Library
- Converting from QuickLog to Multi-Volume support
- Verifying the Storage Foundation upgrade
- Planning to upgrade Storage Foundation
- Section III. Post configuration tasks
- Section IV. Configuration and Upgrade reference
- Appendix A. Installation scripts
- Appendix B. Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications
- About configuring secure shell or remote shell communication modes before installing products
- Manually configuring passwordless ssh
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the installer -comsetup command
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the pwdutil.pl utility
- Restarting the ssh session
- Enabling and disabling rsh for Solaris
Upgrading Storage Foundation with the product installer
This section describes upgrading to the current Storage Foundation, and you do not intend to upgrade your Solaris version. Only use this procedure if you are already running a version of Solaris that is supported with 7.2.
To upgrade Storage Foundation
- Log in as superuser.
- Unmount any mounted VxFS file systems.
The installer supports the upgrade of multiple hosts, if each host is running the same version of VxVM and VxFS. Hosts must be upgraded separately if they are running different versions.
If any VxFS file systems are mounted with the QuickLog feature, QuickLog must be disabled before you upgrade. See the "Veritas QuickLog" chapter of the Veritas File System Administrator's Guide for more information.
- If your system has separate /opt and /var file systems, make sure that they are mounted before proceeding with installation.
- If replication using VVR is configured, verify that all the Primary RLINKs are up-to-date:
# vxrlink -g diskgroup status rlink_name
Note:
Do not continue until the Primary RLINKs are up-to-date.
- Load and mount the disc.
- To invoke the common installer, run the installer command on the disc as shown in this example:
# cd /cdrom/cdrom0 # ./installer
- Enter G to upgrade and press Enter.
- You are prompted to enter the system names (in the following example, "host1"). Enter the system name or names and then press Return.
Enter the system names separated by spaces on which to install SF: host1
Depending on your existing configuration, various messages and prompts may appear. Answer the prompts appropriately.
- Installer asks if you agree with the terms of the End User License Agreement. Press y to agree and continue.
- The installer then prompts you to name the backup boot disk group. Enter the name for it or press Enter to accept the default.
Note:
The split operation can take some time to complete.
- You are prompted to start the split operation. Press y to continue.
- Stop the product's processes.
Do you want to stop SF processes now? ? [y,n,q] (y) y
- The installer lists the packages to install or upgrade, and performs the installation or upgrade.
- The installer verifies, configures, and starts the Storage Foundation software.
- Only perform this step if you have split the boot disk group into a backup disk group. After a successful restart, verify the upgrade and re-join the backup disk group. If the upgrade fails, revert to the backup disk group.