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Upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation on Solaris 8, 9, or 10

This section describes upgrading to the current Veritas Storage Foundation if you are already running Solaris 8 or 9, the root disk is unencapsulated, and do not intend to upgrade your Solaris version. If you are running SUNWvxvm, go to Upgrading from SUNWvxvm. If your root disk is encapsulated, go to Upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation on an encapsulated root disk.

 To upgrade a Veritas Storage Foundation product

1. If you are upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle, resynchronize all existing snapshots before upgrading.

   For Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2:

   # /opt/VRTS/bin/db2ed_vmsnap -D DB2DATABASE -f SNAPPLAN \

   -o resync

   For Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle:

   # /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_vmsnap -S $ORACLE_SID -f SNAPPLAN \

   -o resync

2. Stop the VEA service:

   # /opt/VRTS/bin/vxsvcctrl stop

3. Make sure the root disk is not encapsulated. See Determining if the root disk is encapsulated for more information.
4. Unmount any mounted VxFS file systems.

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     Note   If you are upgrading multiple hosts, the installer supports the upgrade of the same version of VxVM and VxFS from 3.5, 4.0 or 4.1 to 5.0. Hosts must be upgraded separately if they are running mixed versions such as 3.5 and 4.0.
   
   If any VxFS file systems are mounted with the QuickLog feature, QuickLog must be disabled before upgrading. See the "Veritas QuickLog" chapter of the Veritas File System Administrator's Guide for more information.

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5. If you are upgrading a high availability (HA) product, take all service groups offline.

   List all service groups:

   # /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/hagrp -list

   For each service group listed, take it offline:

        # /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/hagrp -offline service_group \

       -sys system_name
 

6. If the VxFS NetBackup libraries package (VRTSfsnbl) is installed, remove it before you install the new packages.

   To remove the package, use the pkgrm command as follows:

   # pkgrm VRTSfsnbl

   Respond to any system messages as needed.

   The libraries contained in this package are included in the VRTSvxfs package in 5.0.

7. Reboot the machine to single-user mode (using a command such as /usr/sbin/shutdown -y -g grace_period -i s).
8. If your system has separate /opt and /var file systems, make sure they are mounted before proceeding with installation. When the system is in single-user mode, /opt and /var are not normally mounted.
9. Load and mount the disc as described in Mounting the software disc. Then, follow the installation instructions.
10. To invoke the common installer, run the install command on the disc as shown in this example:

    # cd /cdrom/cdrom0

    # ./installer

    Depending on your existing configuration, various messages and prompts may appear. Answer the prompts appropriately.

    At the product status page, enter C for the Configure an Installed Product and press Return. The product installer is displayed.