Upgrading Storage Foundation and AIX on an alternate rootvg that is enabled for DMP on an LVM root disk

To upgrade Storage Foundation and AIX on an alternate rootvg that is enabled for DMP on an LVM root disk, perform the following procedure.

To upgrade Storage Foundation on altinst_rootvg on a DMP-enabled rootvg

  1. Clone the currently running system to the alternate disk. For example:

    # alt_disk_copy -d <hdisk##>
  2. Boot from the alternate disk.

  3. Upgrade AIX and Storage Foundation according to the instructions for alternate root upgrade.

  4. Enable DMP on the root disk.

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Configuring DMP support for booting over a SAN