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InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability Configuration and Upgrade Guide - AIX

Last Published: 2025-04-18

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)

Platform: AIX

Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade full releases (base, maintenance, rolling patch), and individual patches

Beginning with version 7.3.1, you can easily install or upgrade your systems directly to a base, maintenance, patch level or a combination of multiple patches and packages together in one step using Install Bundles. With Install Bundles, the installer has the ability to merge so that customers can install or upgrade directly to maintenance or patch levels in one execution. The various scripts, filesets, and patch components are merged, and multiple releases are installed together as if they are one combined release. You do not have to perform two or more install actions to install or upgrade systems to maintenance levels or patch levels.

Releases are divided into the following categories:

Table: Release Levels

Level	Content	Form factor	Applies to	Release types	Download location
Base	Features	filesets	All products	Major, minor, Service Pack (SP), Platform Release (PR)	FileConnect
Maintenance	Fixes, new features	filesets	All products	Maintenance Release (MR), Rolling Patch (RP)	Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
Patch	Fixes	filesets	Single product	P-Patch, Private Patch, Public patch	SORT, Support site

When you install or upgrade using Install Bundles:

InfoScale products are discovered and assigned as a single version to the maintenance level. Each system can also have one or more patches applied.
Base releases are accessible from FileConnect that requires customer serial numbers. Maintenance and patch releases can be automatically downloaded from SORT.
Patches can be installed using automated installers.
Patches can now be detected to prevent upgrade conflict. Patch releases are not offered as a combined release. They are only available from Arctera Technical Support on a need basis.

You can use the -base_path and -patch_path options to import installation code from multiple releases. You can find filesets and patches from different media paths, and merge fileset and patch definitions for multiple releases. You can use these options to use new task and phase functionality to correctly perform required operations for each release component. You can install the filesets and patches in defined phases using these options, which helps you when you want to perform a single start or stop process and perform pre and post operations for all level in a single operation.

Four possible methods of integration exist. All commands must be executed from the highest base or maintenance level install script.

In the example below:

9.0 is the base version
9.0.1 is the maintenance version
9.0.1.1000 is the patch version for 9.0.1
9.0.0.1000 is the patch version for 9.0

Base + maintenance:
This integration method can be used when you install or upgrade from a lower version to 9.0.1.
Enter the following command:
```
# installmr -base_path <path_to_base>
```
Base + patch:
This integration method can be used when you install or upgrade from a lower version to 9.0.0.100.
Enter the following command:
```
# installer -patch_path <path_to_patch>
```
Maintenance + patch:
This integration method can be used when you upgrade from version 9.0 to 9.0.1.100.
Enter the following command:
```
# installmr -patch_path <path_to_patch> 
```
Base + maintenance + patch:
This integration method can be used when you install or upgrade from a lower version to 9.0.1.100.
Enter the following command:
```
# installmr -base_path <path_to_base> 
-patch_path <path_to_patch>
```
Note:
You can add a maximum of five patches using -patch_path <path_to_patch> -patch2_path <path_to_patch> ... -patch5_path <path_to_patch>