About the supported upgrade paths and the supported minimum product versions

To upgrade to an InfoScale product, your systems must have a corresponding Veritas Storage and High Availability product. The following table lists the Veritas Storage and High Availability product versions from which you can upgrade to its 7.1 version:

Upgrade from

Upgrade to

6.0.x

6.x

7.0

7.0.x

7.1

If your current installation does not meet this minimum required level, you must manually apply the appropriate product upgrades before you proceed with the upgrade. You can get the intermediate versions of the products on the Veritas Support site:

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US.html

For license keys, contact Veritas Sales. You can also uninstall the older versions of the product and install the new product.

The following table lists the supported upgrade paths.

Table: Supported upgrade paths

Upgrade from

Upgrade to

InfoScale Foundation

InfoScale Availability

InfoScale Storage

InfoScale Enterprise

SFW Basic

X

X

X

SFW

X

X

X

SFW HA

X

X

X

VCS

X

X

X

DMP

X

X

X

VBS

(Virtual Business Service 6.1 for 3rd party support)

X

X

X

Note:

While you plan to install the product, you may have to upgrade your Windows operating system to the supported minimum level. We recommend you to perform the Windows upgrade before you upgrade the product.

See Supported hardware and software.