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Installing Veritas Volume Manager

If you purchased Veritas Volume Manager only, use the steps in this section to install the product. If you purchased one of the Storage Foundation products, see Installing a Veritas Storage Foundation product.

Installation and upgrade methods lists the various methods that are possible for installing and upgrading VxVM.

Installation and upgrade methods

Method

Description

Installation using the product installer  

See Installing VxVM using the product installer

Installation using pkgadd and conversion to a managed host 

See Installing VxVM using the pkgadd command

Installation using JumpStart 

See Installing VxVM using JumpStart

Upgrade using the product installer 

See Upgrading VxVM using the product installer

See Upgrading VxFS using the product installer

Upgrade using pkgadd 

See Upgrading VxVM using pkgadd

Upgrade using scripts 

See Upgrading VxVM using upgrade scripts

See Upgrading VxVM and the Solaris OS

Upgrade using Live Upgrade 

Upgrading VxVM and/or Solaris using Live Upgrade