01-29-2013 04:02 AM
I have one of the enviorment of SFHA 5.0MP3, I am planning to upgrade 5.0MP3RP3 on RedHat 5.3 64 Bit
while searching for patch of RP3, i found three rolling patch i.e.
Please guide me the difference between them, further will I have to patch all three of them ?
P.S - I know NEW versions are already avaialble, but i have specific requirement of this version therefore need to perform it urgently.
Please guide me as soon as possible experts out there
Thanks
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01-29-2013 05:58 AM
It is best to just use sfha-rhel5_x86_64-5.0MP3RP3 and this will patch what you have - so if you only have vxvm and vxfs, then it will just patch these 2 are won't apply VCS patches.
Not many customers bought JUST vxvm or vxfs - it was normally bought as SF which includes both (or SFHA which also includes VCS) and I am not even sure that vxfs and vxvm can be purchased separately these days.
The only reason I can think you would apply indivdual patches for vxfs and vxvm is if you have a slow download spee so only want to download the minimum from Symantec.
From memory, you can use "rpm -aq | grep VRTS" to find out what packages you have.
Mike
01-29-2013 05:44 AM
SFHA(Storage Foundation HA) consist of VERITAS Volume Manager(VxVM), VERITAS Filesystem(VxFS) and VERITAS Cluster Server.
01-29-2013 05:58 AM
It is best to just use sfha-rhel5_x86_64-5.0MP3RP3 and this will patch what you have - so if you only have vxvm and vxfs, then it will just patch these 2 are won't apply VCS patches.
Not many customers bought JUST vxvm or vxfs - it was normally bought as SF which includes both (or SFHA which also includes VCS) and I am not even sure that vxfs and vxvm can be purchased separately these days.
The only reason I can think you would apply indivdual patches for vxfs and vxvm is if you have a slow download spee so only want to download the minimum from Symantec.
From memory, you can use "rpm -aq | grep VRTS" to find out what packages you have.
Mike
01-29-2013 06:26 AM
Thanks Yasuhisa for your words over it :)
01-29-2013 06:36 AM
Thanks mikebounds for your reply.
I have two more questions if you can reply me easily.
First - One enviorment is on on SFHA 5.0MP3 and I want to patch it to SFHA 5.0MP3RP3 - Usage on this envoirment is Veritas Cluster Server. Global Cluster and Veritas Replication - It's basically 2+1 Node Cluster, 2 Cluster Nodes on Primary Site and 1 Cluster Node on DR Site - Now recomend which patch should I use from the above query I did.
Second - My another enviorment is on SFHA 5.0MP3 and I want to patch this to SFHA 5.0MP4RP1 - Usage is same as First 2+1 Node Cluster -
Which patch should I use for it for MP4RP1 ?
Or do I need to first patch it to MP4 and then seperately patch MP4RP1 ?
Thanks
01-29-2013 06:45 AM
Apply sfha-rhel5_x86_64-5.0MP3RP3 to firat and SFHA MP4RP1 to second (no need to apply MP4 first - see https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/suggestion-updating-sfha50-mp3rp3-environment)
Mike
01-29-2013 06:56 AM
Thanks Mike.
What I have understood is that I can patch directly in both the scenarios and just for confirmation in both scenarios, I will have to download 'sfha' patch only and ignore the 'vm' or 'fs' patches as my desire will be fulfilled.
Hope I am correct ?
01-29-2013 07:02 AM
You are correct in all cases.
Mike
01-29-2013 07:39 AM
Marking it as Solution Mike
Thanks for your feedback