If you are upgrading Solaris only, you must remove and reinstall Storage Foundation from the alternate boot environment prior to completing the Live Upgrade. You must remove and reinstall because Storage Foundation has kernel components that are specific to Solaris operating system versions. The correct version of the Storage Foundation packages must be installed.
Upgrading Solaris using Live Upgrade involves the following steps:
Preparing to upgrade using Solaris Live Upgrade.
See Before you upgrade Storage Foundation using Solaris Live Upgrade.
Creating a new boot environment on the alternate boot disk
See Creating a new boot environment on the alternate boot disk.
Removing and reinstalling Storage Foundation 5.1 on the alternate boot environment, in one of the following ways:
See Removing and reinstalling Storage Foundation using the installer.
Switching the alternate boot environment to be the new primary