Procedure to manually upgrade SF 5.1 to SF 5.1SP1 and create a clone disk at the same time.

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AIX version Technology Level and Service Pack releases of AIX 5.3 and later SFHA version 5.1 and later

  Check the following before upgrading SFHA on an alternate disk

  Make sure that the SFHA installation media is available.     Check the status of the physical disks on your system.

Note:any mounted volume groups.

The alternate disk must have a physical identifier and must not contain

#Output similar to the following displays:

hdisk0 0009710fa9c79877 rootvg active

hdisk1 0009710f0b90db93 None

lspv

If the alternate disk does not have a physical identifier, set the physical

identifier for the disk:

# chdev -l hdisk1 -a pv=yes

Preparing to upgrade SFHA on an alternate disk

Run the following command:

  # /usr/sbin/alt_disk_copy -I "acNgXY" -P "all"  -l "/tmp" -w "all" -d "hdisk1"

Where:

■clone the primary disk.

-d indicates the name of the target disk on which you

■the filesets to be upgraded

-l indicates the full path of the directory that contains

■upgrade on the alternate boot disk. The option

-w indicates the list of SFHA filesets that you want to all

indicates that all the filesets contained in the directory

you specified (using option -l) must be installed to the

alternate boot disk.

  Verify that the alternate disk is created:

#hdisk0 0009710fa9c79877 rootvg

hdisk1 0009710f0b90db93 altinst_rootvg

lspv

 By default, the alternate disk installation process changes the boot list to

enable the system to boot from the alternate disk.

Verify that the normal boot list includes the name of the alternate boot disk.

#hdisk1

bootlist -m normal -o hdisk1

Upgrading using an alternate disk 243

Upgrading SFHA on an alternate disk

  Copy the product installation scripts and libraries to the alternate disk:

#disk is activated when you restart the nodes.

./installer -copyinstallscripts -rootpath /alt_inst Restart all the nodes in the cluster. The boot environment on the alternate

#

To verify the upgrade

shutdown -r  

Supported upgrade paths

You can upgrade the operating system and SFHA using an alternate disk from the following versions:


Applies To

 

Use the alternate disk installation process to upgrade the operating system and SF on a production server while the server runs. Perform the upgrade on an

alternate or inactive boot environment. After the upgrade, you restart the system to use the updated environment. The instructions in this section assume a working

knowledge of the alternate disk installation process. See the operating system documentation for detailed information on alternate disk installations.

Issue/Introduction

Only Technology Level (TL) and Service Pack (SP) releases of the operating system can be upgraded using this procedure
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