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

Running an upgrade pre-check using the UI

The upgrade pre-check determines if the system is ready for an upgrade. Run the pre-check at the beginning of an upgrade to check for any potential problems that might result in an upgrade failure. If the pre-check fails, the upgrade cannot proceed. You must resolve the issues before you upgrade the cluster.

Note:

Veritas recommends that you perform a pre-check one week in advance to ensure that you have sufficient time to fix any issues that are discovered during the pre-check. Additionally, run the pre-check again a day prior to the planned upgrade.

To run a pre-check:

  1. Sign in to the Access Appliance UI using the following URL, if not already done so:

    https://console-ip:14161

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

  2. Navigate to Settings > Software management > Software update.

    The downloaded software update is displayed under Downloaded package files. To view the details about the software update click the package name.

  3. For the software update, click the Actions menu (vertical ellipsis) from the right side of the row in the UI and click Start pre-check.
  4. When you are prompted for confirmation, click Start pre-check.

    A notification is displayed on the top of the page. To monitor the progress of the pre-check operation, click View details. The pre-check takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. If the pre-check completes successfully, a notification about the pre-check completing successfully is displayed on the top of the page. If any issues are detected during the pre-check, an error notification is displayed on the top of the page. You can click View details on the View all activities pane to see the error details. The pre-check continues with the rest of the checks and shows all the issues that are encountered during the pre-check.

See Upgrading Access Appliance using the UI.