Veritas Access Appliance 8.3 Upgrade Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.3)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350,Veritas 3360
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About the Access Appliance upgrade
    2.  
      About the supported software versions
    3.  
      Supported upgrade paths
    4.  
      Supported upgrade paths if continuous replication is configured
    5. About the preupgrade check
      1.  
        Error messages displayed during the preupgrade check
  2. Upgrading Access Appliance
    1.  
      Access Appliance upgrade overview
    2. Downloading the appliance software updates
      1. Downloading the software update using the UI
        1.  
          Downloading a software update from the Veritas Support website
      2. Downloading software updates using the Access Appliance shell menu
        1.  
          Downloading software updates directly to an Access Appliance node
        2.  
          Downloading software updates to an Access Appliance node using a client share
        3. Downloading software updates to an Access Appliance node using SCP
          1.  
            Installing OpenSSH
    3. Performing an upgrade pre-check
      1.  
        Running an upgrade pre-check using the UI
      2.  
        Running a pre-check from the appliance shell menu
    4. Completing pre-upgrade tasks
      1.  
        Performing manual preupgrade tasks
      2.  
        Performing preupgrade tasks when replication is configured
      3.  
        Considerations for Veritas Data Deduplication server if it is configured without WORM storage
    5. Performing an upgrade
      1.  
        Upgrading Access Appliance using the UI
      2.  
        Performing an upgrade from the appliance shell menu
    6. Completing post-upgrade tasks
      1.  
        Renewing internal certificate
      2.  
        Downloading and installing the required EEBs
      3.  
        Reconfiguring non-WORM Veritas Data Deduplication server
      4.  
        Increasing the Veritas Data Deduplication storage to 2.4 PiB
  3. Installing EEBs using the UI
    1.  
      About Access Appliance EEBs
    2.  
      Downloading EEBs
    3.  
      Installing EEBs
    4.  
      Rolling back EEBs
    5.  
      Removing EEBs

Performing manual preupgrade tasks

Before upgrading to version 8.3, perform the following steps to check the status of the appliance and to ensure that the appliance is ready for an upgrade:

  1. Open an SSH session and log on to the appliance node as an administrator using the Access Appliance Shell menu.
  2. Check the appliance version and the Access software verison to ensure the upgrade path is supported:

    show appliance status

  3. Verify the health of the hardware components of the appliance node:

    system self-test hardware

    Ensure that the test completes with the Node does not have any errors message.

  4. Verify the status of components such as the Access service, the S3 service, and the installed RPM packages:

    system self-test software

    Ensure that the test completes with PASS status.

  5. Check all open sessions and terminate all sessions except the upgrade session:
  6. Verify that no USB drive or other bootable devices are attached to appliance.
  7. Ensure that the password for the maintenance account and any appliance administrator users does not expire within seven days. If the password expires for any of these users, change the password before you start the upgrade.
  8. Ensure that the default password is not used for the maintenance account and the administrator and sysadmin users. If the default password is used for any of the users, change the password before you start the upgrade.
  9. Ensure that an NTP server is configured for the cluster.
  10. Disable the objectaccess server if a bucket is not created:

    From the Access command-line interface, run the Objectaccess>server disable command.