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Upgrading Veritas Volume Manager

If you purchased Veritas Volume Manager only, use the steps in the following section to upgrade VxVM. If you purchased Storage Foundation, use the Storage Foundation upgrade procedure.

This chapter describes how to upgrade Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). There are several ways to upgrade:

• Upgrading VxVM Only; see Upgrading VxVM only
• Upgrading VxVM and the Solaris operating system; see Upgrading VxVM and the Solaris OS.
• Upgrading the Solaris operating system only; see Upgrading the Solaris OS only.

Within these scenarios, there are other different upgrade paths depending on whether you have an encapsulated disk.

  Note   If you are planning to use VxVM in a cluster environment, follow the instructions in Enabling cluster support in VxVM (optional).