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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 a pre-check from the appliance shell menu

Use the following procedure to run the pre-check from the appliance shell menu:

To run a pre-upgrade check:

  1. Open an SSH session and use the admin credentials to log in the appliance.

    The Veritas Appliance Shell menu is displayed.

  2. To run the pre-upgrade check run the following command:

    start appliance preupgrade-check patch=update_name

    where update-name is the name of the software update that you want to install.

  3. Monitor the pre-upgrade check and ensure that all the pre-upgrade checks pass successfully. To check the status, run the show appliance preupgrade-check status command.

    Note:

    Wait for a few seconds before you check the status. If you check the status immediately after running the preupgrade-check command, the status of the preupgrade checks might not be available. If you check the status without running the preupgrade-check command, Operation failed error message is displayed.