Upgrading Storage Foundation and High Availability using the Veritas Web-based installer

This section describes upgrading SFHA with the Veritas Web-based installer. The installer detects and upgrades the product that is currently installed on the specified system or systems.

To upgrade SFHA

  1. Perform the required steps to save any data that you wish to preserve. For example, make configuration file backups.
  2. 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 -any
  3. Start the Web-based installer.

    See Starting the Veritas Web-based installer.

  4. Indicate the systems on which to upgrade. Enter one or more system names, separated by spaces. Click Next.
  5. The installer discovers if any of the systems that you are upgrading have mirrored and encapsulated boot disks. For each system that has a mirrored boot disk, you have the option to create a backup of the book disk group. To create the backup, check the Split mirrors on all the systems box. Check the appropriate box to use the same name for the backup disk group on all systems--you can use the default name or choose a new one. Check the systems where you want to create the backup. When you are ready, click the Next button.
  6. Click Next to complete the upgrade.

    After the upgrade completes, the installer displays the location of the log and summary files. If required, view the files to confirm the installation status.

  7. If you are prompted to reboot the systems, enter the following reboot command:
    # /usr/sbin/shutdown -r now
  8. After the upgrade, if the product is not configured, the Web-based installer asks: "Do you want to configure this product?" If the product is already configured, it will not ask any questions.
  9. If you want to upgrade VCS or SFHA 5.1 on the CP server systems to version Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0.1, make sure that you upgraded all application clusters to version Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0.1. Then, upgrade VCS or SFHA on the CP server systems. For instructions to upgrade VCS or SFHA, see the VCS or SFHA Installation Guide.
  10. Only perform this step if you have split the mirrored root disk to back it up. After a successful reboot, verify the upgrade and re-join the backup disk group into the upgraded boot disk group. If the upgrade fails, revert the upgrade boot disk group to the backup disk group.

    See Re-joining the backup boot disk group into the current disk group.

    See Reverting to the backup boot disk group after an unsuccessful upgrade.

If you are upgrading from 4.x, you may need to create new VCS accounts if you used native operating system accounts.