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Veritas Access Appliance Upgrade Guide

Last Published: 2024-01-15

Product(s): Appliances (8.1)

Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350

Introduction
Performing pre-upgrade tasks
Upgrading the Access Appliance
1. Downloading the appliance software release updates
  1. Downloading software updates directly to an Access Appliance node
  2. Downloading software updates to an Access Appliance node using a client share
2. Upgrading Access Appliance
  1. Installing an appliance software update on the Access Appliance
  2. Reviewing the license requirements
Post upgrade tasks

Downloading software updates directly to an Access Appliance node

Use this procedure to download a software release update to an appliance node.

For a rolling upgrade or a parallel upgrade, download the package to one of the nodes in the cluster. For a node-by-node upgrade, you need to download the package to both the nodes.

For more details about the upgrade methods, See About the Access Appliance upgrade.

Downloading for appliance version 7.4.3 and 7.4.3.x

Use the following procedure to download the software release update if your appliance version is 7.4.3 or 7.4.3.x.

To download software release updates directly to an appliance node, complete the following steps:

Open an SSH session and log on to the appliance as an administrator using the Access Appliance shell menu.
The Main_Menu view is displayed.
To determine if a software update is available from the Veritas Support website, enter the following command:
Main_Menu > Manage > Software > List AvailablePatch
The software release update that is available for installation is displayed.
Note the name of the software release update package. For example, VRTSaccess-app-update-8.1-1.x86_64.rpm
To download the available software update, enter the following command:
Main_Menu > Manage > Software > Download update_name
where update_name is the name of the software release update package.
For example:
Main_Menu > Manage > Software > Download VRTSaccess-app-update-8.1-1.x86_64.rpm
You can view the download progress by using the Software > DownloadProgress command.
```
access-app.Software> DownloadProgress
VRTSaccess-app-update-8.1-1.x86_64.rpm downloading (506M/3.4G)
```
To verify that the software update has downloaded successfully, enter the following command:
Main_Menu > Manage > Software > List Downloaded
The downloaded software update is validated and details such as the patch name, size, and version are displayed.

Downloading for appliance version 8.0 and later

Use this procedure to download the software release update if your appliance version is 8.0 or later.

To download software release updates directly to an appliance node, complete the following steps:

If not already done so, open an SSH session and log on to the appliance as an administrator using the Access Appliance shell menu.
To determine if a software update is available from the Veritas Support website, enter the following command:
system software available-patch
The software release update that is available for installation is displayed. Note the name of the software release update package. For example, VRTSaccess-app-update-8.1-1.x86_64.rpm
To download the available software update, enter the following command:
system software download-update update-name=update-name
where update-name is the name of the software release update package. For example:system software download-update update-name=VRTSaccess-app-update-8.1-1.x86_64.rpm
You can view the download progress by using the system software download-progress command.
```
[access-8.0] node > system software download-progress

The status of VRTSaccess-app-update-8.1-1.x86_64.rpm is downloading, and the progress is:

[9%|ETA: 0:08:35]
```
To verify that the software update has downloaded successfully, enter the following command:
system software downloaded
The downloaded software update is validated and details such as the patch name, size, and version are displayed.