Upgrading VCS manually

You can perform a manual upgrade of VCS using Live Upgrade. On each node, remove and install the appropriate VCS packages.

At the end of the process the following occurs:

To perform Live Upgrade of VCS manually

  1. Confirm that the vcslustart script has mounted the secondary (alternate) disk to /altroot.5.10.

    # mount

    Or

    # df -k
  2. Remove VCS packages on the alternate boot disk in the following order:

    # pkgrm   -R  /altroot.5.10 \
    VRTScmcc VRTScmcs VRTScssim VRTScscm \
    VRTSvcsmn VRTSacclib VRTSweb VRTScscw \
    VRTScutil VRTSjre15 VRTSvcsag VRTSvcsmg \
    VRTSvcs VRTSvxfen VRTSgab VRTSllt \
    VRTSspt VRTSat VRTSpbx VRTSicsco \
    VRTSvlic VRTSperl

    The -R option removes the packages from the root path /altroot.5.10.

  3. Install VCS 5.1 packages in the following order one at a time to the alternate boot disk using the pkgadd command:

    VRTSvlic.pkg VRTSperl.pkg VRTSat.pkg VRTSspt.pkg 
    VRTSllt.pkg VRTSgab.pkg VRTSvxfen.pkg VRTSvcs.pkg
    VRTScps.pkg VRTSvcsag.pkg VRTScutil.pkg

    For example:

    # pkgadd -R /altroot.5.10 -d package_name.pkg

    Where you replace package_name.pkg with a package's name, for example VRTSvcs.pkg.

    # pkgadd -R /altroot.5.10 -d VRTSvcs.pkg
  4. Verify that the version of the packages on the alternate boot disk is 5.1.

    # pkginfo -R /altroot.5.10 -l VRTSvcs
  5. Switch the boot environment, perform one of the following:

  6. Run the following command on the alternate root path of any one node in the cluster to configure a VCS cluster UUID:

    # /altroot.5.10/opt/VRTSvcs/bin/uuidconfig.pl -clus -configure \
    -use_llthost

    The -use_llthost option indicates that the /etc/llthost file is used to determine the names of the nodes in the cluster. Alternatively, you can specify the node names instead of the file name.

  7. Confirm that you have created the Universal Unique Identifier:

    # /altroot.5.10/opt/VRTSvcs/bin/uuidconfig.pl -clus -display \
    -use_llthost
  8. Run the following command to export the root path installation environment variable.

    # export INSTALL_ROOT_PATH=/altroot.5.10