Upgrading Storage Foundation and AIX on a DMP-enabled alternate rootvg
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Upgrading Storage Foundation and AIX on a DMP-enabled alternate rootvg

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_install -C -P all hdisk##
  2. Boot from the alternate disk.
  3. Upgrade AIX and Storage Foundation according to the instructions for alternate root upgrade.

    See the Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability Installation Guide.

  4. Enable DMP on the root disk.

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