Upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation HA from 4.1MP2 to 5.0 .. 5.0MP1

[ALORA]

I need help with the best practice guide that details the steps for upgrading from Storage Foundation Suite HA 4.1MP2 to Storage Foundation Suite HA 5.0MP1 on solaris 9.

Veritas Volume Manager

Veritas Cluster Server

Veritas File System

Thanks

Sealord

Message Edited by ALORA on 07-30-2008 12:22 PM

[bsobek]

Hi Alora, we did an upgrade from 4.0MP2 to 5.0MP1 a few days ago with several systems (we created a checklist for our systems, but this is internal use only :( ).
just take a look at the release notes for installing 5.0MP1 and additionally at the installation guides. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/288455.htm

shortly:
- break rootmirror
- install 5.0
- install 5.0MP1
- install RP's
- install additional agents for 5.0 (e.g. SRDF) from the agent Pack
- reboot
- test
- sync rootmirror

if you need any further information, just ask.

greets

Björn

Message Edited by bsobek on 07-31-2008 12:18 AM

[ALORA]

Do you also have Veritas Cluster installed? Did you do an install or an upgrade? Thanks

[bsobek]

yes, we have vcs and vxvm installed.


if you want to install some rolling patches, read the readme-files before installing.

there are several rp's for vxvm, vxfs and vcs.

[ALORA · Accepted solution]

I just went for it and was able to sucessfully upgrade from 4.1 MP2 to 5.0 yesterday; my root disk is not encapsulated and the entire task took less than 90 Minutes for a two V440  node cluster.

You just have to make sure that you:

1. Unmount all VXFS filesystems

2. HAD is running.

Message Edited by ALORA on 08-01-2008 10:35 AM

[oky]

Hi,

I have a similar kind of setup and stuck with the upgradation.Below is the snapshot of the veritas disks.

Disk group: rootdg

TY NAME         ASSOC        KSTATE   LENGTH   PLOFFS   STATE    TUTIL0  PUTIL0
dg rootdg       rootdg       -        -        -        -        -       -

dm rootdg01     c1t0d0s2     -        143328960 -       -        -       -
dm rootdg02     c1t3d0s2     -        143328960 -       -        -       -

v  homevol      fsgen        ENABLED  10485760 -        ACTIVE   -       -
pl homevol-01   homevol      ENABLED  10491456 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg01-06  homevol-01   ENABLED  10491456 0        -        -       -
pl homevol-02   homevol      ENABLED  10491456 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg02-05  homevol-02   ENABLED  10491456 0        -        -       -

v  opt          fsgen        ENABLED  21166080 -        ACTIVE   -       -
pl opt-01       opt          ENABLED  21166080 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg01-03  opt-01       ENABLED  21166080 0        -        -       -
pl opt-02       opt          ENABLED  21166080 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg02-06  opt-02       ENABLED  21166080 0        -        -       -

v  oravol       fsgen        ENABLED  20971520 -        ACTIVE   -       -
pl oravol-03    oravol       ENABLED  20971520 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sv oravol-S01   oravol-03    ENABLED  20229888 0        -        -       -
sv oravol-S02   oravol-03    ENABLED  741632   20229888 -        -       -

v  oravol-L01   fsgen        ENABLED  20229888 -        ACTIVE   -       -
pl oravol-P01   oravol-L01   ENABLED  20229888 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg02-08  oravol-P01   ENABLED  20229888 0        -        -       -
pl oravol-P02   oravol-L01   ENABLED  20229888 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg01-09  oravol-P02   ENABLED  20229888 0        -        -       -

v  oravol-L02   fsgen        ENABLED  741632   -        ACTIVE   -       -
pl oravol-P03   oravol-L02   ENABLED  741632   -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg02-09  oravol-P03   ENABLED  741632   0        -        -       -
pl oravol-P04   oravol-L02   ENABLED  741632   -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg01-10  oravol-P04   ENABLED  741632   0        -        -       -

v  rootvol      root         ENABLED  11061312 -        ACTIVE   -       -
pl rootvol-01   rootvol      ENABLED  11061312 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg01-B0  rootvol-01   ENABLED  1        0        -        -       Block0
sd rootdg01-02  rootvol-01   ENABLED  11061311 1        -        -       -
pl rootvol-02   rootvol      ENABLED  11061312 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg02-01  rootvol-02   ENABLED  11061312 0        -        -       -

v  swapvol      swap         ENABLED  30721344 -        NEEDSYNC -       -
pl swapvol-01   swapvol      ENABLED  30721344 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg01-01  swapvol-01   ENABLED  30721344 0        -        -       -
pl swapvol-02   swapvol      ENABLED  30721344 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg02-04  swapvol-02   ENABLED  30721344 0        -        -       -

v  usr          fsgen        ENABLED  21166080 -        ACTIVE   -       -
pl usr-01       usr          ENABLED  21166080 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg01-05  usr-01       ENABLED  21166080 0        -        -       -
pl usr-02       usr          ENABLED  21166080 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg02-02  usr-02       ENABLED  21166080 0        -        -       -

v  var          fsgen        ENABLED  21166080 -        NEEDSYNC -       -
pl var-01       var          ENABLED  21166080 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg01-04  var-01       ENABLED  21166080 0        -        -       -
pl var-02       var          ENABLED  21166080 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg02-03  var-02       ENABLED  21166080 0        -        -       -
-bash-3.2$

I have another disk group.

During upgradation Volumes in this group are unmounted and disk group is deported.

But when executing with upgrade_start script,its thrown with these errors

upgrade_start: Error: The mirrored disk c1t1d0 is also encapsulated.
        It is not possible to have encapsulated mirror disk. Remove
        the unwanted directory from /etc/vx/reconfig.d/disk.d/
        and try again.

Disk rootdg01 contains more than 5
        volumes which cannot be unencapsulated. Move some volumes
        to different disk and try again

Basically in my setup rootdg is mirrored.

Above entires shows that we have to un-mirror the rootdg.

But i am not sure how to un-mirror this.

Kindly help me out in this.