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Upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation and Linux

If you are running an earlier release of Veritas Storage Foundation, you can upgrade to the latest version of Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle, or Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 using the procedures described in this chapter.

The information in Upgrading the Veritas software on a cluster pertains to Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle, and Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2.

Topics include:

• Previously supported installations on Red Hat Linux
• Previously supported installations on SUSE Linux
• Preparing to upgrade the Veritas Storage Foundation software
• Upgrading the Veritas software on a cluster
• Upgrading the Veritas software on a standalone system
• Upgrading the Linux kernel
• Upgrading VxFS disk layout versions
• Upgrading VxVM disk group versions
• Upgrading to the new repository database for DB2 and Oracle
• Migrating from /etc/vx/vxdba to /var/vx/vxdba for DB2 and Oracle
• Upgrading the VEA client on a Windows system

  Note   If you need to upgrade your kernel with Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 already installed, follow the procedure given in Upgrading the Linux kernel.

Only users with superuser privileges can upgrade and initialize Veritas Storage Foundation and Linux.