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

Downloading the software update using the UI

You can download the software update from SORT or from the Download Center on the Veritas Support website. If you download the software update from the Veritas Support website, you must first download the software update to a Windows system that can access the Download Center and the cluster nodes and then upload the software update to one of the nodes.

See Downloading a software update from the Veritas Support website.

To download the software update:

  1. Sign in to the Access Appliance UI using the following URL:

    https://console-ip:14161

    where console-ip is the management console IP address where the web interface is hosted.

  2. Go to Settings > Software management > Software update.
  3. To download the software update do one of the following:

    • If the appliance has access to SORT, click Check online for update.

      A notification is displayed on the top of the page. To monitor the progress, click View details. If a software update is available, it is downloaded and displayed under Downloaded package files; else no updates available on SORT is displayed when you click View details on the tasks page.

    • To upload a software update that was downloaded from the Veritas Support site, click Upload, browse to the location where the software update is downloaded, select the software update and click Upload.

      You can select only a single software update at a time.

      The progress of the upload operation is displayed on the page. After the upload is complete, the software update is displayed under Downloaded package files.