Planning the upgrade


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Planning the upgrade

Complete the following tasks in advance of upgrading:

Ensure that you have created a valid backup.
Review the Veritas Storage Foundation Release Notes for any late-breaking information on upgrading your system.
Be sure that the administrator doing the upgrade has root access and a working knowledge of Linux operating system administration.
Schedule sufficient outage time for the upgrade.

To determine which version of Storage Foundation is installed on your system, run the vxlicrep command.

Upgrade paths

The upgrade paths for Veritas Storage Foundation Basic are:

From	Upgrade to	Tasks
Storage Foundation Basic	Storage Foundation Standard	Install the license key by running `vxlicinst` command. Run `vxdctl license init` to reread the Storage Foundation Standard license key.
Storage Foundation Basic	Storage Foundation Enterprise	Install the licence key by running `vxlicinst` command. Run `vxdctl license init` to reread the Storage Foundation Enterprise license key.
Storage Foundation Basic	Storage Foundation Enterprise with licensed features: Veritas Volume Replicator	Run the Storage Foundation product `installer` to install the Storage Foundation Enterprise and Veritas Volume Replicator key. See Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation software Run `vxdctl license init` to reread the Veritas Volume Replicator license key.
Storage Foundation Basic	Any Storage Foundation product	Uninstall Storage Foundation Basic. See Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation Basic. Install any Storage Foundation product, see the Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Getting Started Guide.


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