Installing the VERITAS Software

This chapter provides an overview of the installation tasks for VERITAS Storage Foundation products and describes how to install the packages.

Because VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 and VERITAS File System 3.5 are bundled in the September 2004 HP-UX 11i version 2.0 release, a fresh installation is not possible. You must perform an upgrade to move to the 4.1 versions of the VERITAS products.

Caution After you install the 4.1 software, the VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 software that was bundled with the HP-UX operating system is no longer available. To reinstall VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5, you must use your HP-UX software discs. Because you can only have one version of VERITAS Volume Manager on your system, if you choose to reinstall VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 (with the appropriate swinstall options to downgrade the version), the 4.1 software will no longer be available.

Installing the 4.1 VERITAS software will not overwrite VERITAS File System 3.5. Both the 4.1 and 3.5 versions will be on your system.

Topics covered in this chapter include:

Installation Requirements
Summary of VERITAS Storage Foundation Installation Tasks
Using Existing Licenses
Upgrading HP-UX
Preparing to Install the VERITAS Software
Installing the VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Software
Verifying the VERITAS Storage Foundation Installation
Converting to a VxVM Root Disk
Upgrading VxFS Disk Layout Versions
Upgrading VxVM Disk Group Versions
Upgrading the VxVM Cluster Protocol Version
Installing the VEA Client
Installing VERITAS Volume Manager

Note

Only users with superuser (root) privileges can install VERITAS products.


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