Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Release Notes

Upgrading to 6.0.3Upgrading to 6.0.3185Performing a rolling upgrade using the installerYou can use rolling upgrades to upgrade one product from a release to the nextwith minimal application downtime.Performing a rolling upgrade on kernel packages for VCS, SFHA,SFSYBASECE, SVS and SFCFSHA: phase 1Note that in the following instructions a sub-cluster can represent one or morenodes in a full cluster, but is represented by nodeA.To perform the rolling upgrade on kernel packages: phase 11 Stop all the applications that access volumes which are not under VCS controlin the sub-cluster to be upgraded.2 Unmount all the file systems managed by SF which are not under VCS controlin the sub-cluster to be upgraded.3 On the first sub-cluster, start the installer for the rolling upgrade with the-rollingupgrade_phase1 option.# ./installmr -rollingupgrade_phase1 nodeA4 Note that if the boot-disk is encapsulated, then you do not need to performan unencapsulation for upgrades.5 The installer checks system communications, release compatibility, versioninformation, and lists the cluster name, ID, and cluster nodes. Type y tocontinue.6 The installer inventories the running service groups and determines the nodeor nodes to upgrade in phase 1 of the rolling upgrade. Type y to continue. Ifyou choose to specify the nodes, type n and enter the names of the nodes.7 The installer performs further prechecks on the nodes in the cluster and maypresent warnings. You can type y to continue or quit the installer and addressthe precheck's warnings.8 After the installer shows the package list, it detects if there are online failoverservice groups on the nodes to be upgraded. If there are online failover servicegroups, the installer prompts you to do one of the following:■■Manually switch service groupsUse the CPI to automatically switch service groupsThe downtime is the time that it normally takes for the service group'sfailover.