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 software updates to an Access Appliance node using SCP

Use this procedure to copy the software updates to the /inst/patch/appliance/available directory on the Access Appliance from a Linux or a Windows system using the Secure copy protocol (SCP).

To copy a software update from a Windows system, you must install OpenSSH on Windows. For details about installing OpenSSH, See Installing OpenSSH.

To download the software update:

  1. Download the software update from the Veritas Download Center to a Windows or a Linux system. Ensure that the system is in the same network as the Access Appliance.

    • Go to the Veritas Support website and click Downloads.

    • In the Veritas Download Center, in the Products list, select Appliances, in the Sub product list select Access Appliance OS. Select the version and click Explore.

    • Expand Base and installers.

  2. From the Access Appliance node-level CLI run the following commands:

    support elevate

    # cd /inst/patch/appliance/available

  3. Copy the RPM file using the following command:

    For Linux:

    # scp username@linuxserver:/full-path-to-accessappliance-patch.rpm

    where username is the admin user for the Linux server.

    For Windows:

    scp username@domain-or-ip-of-windows-machine:
full-path-to-accessappliance-patch-on-windows-machine 
/inst/patch/appliance/available

    where username is the admin user for the Windows server.

    For example, if the RPM was downloaded to the Downloads directory on Windows by user administrator:

    aa01:/inst/patch/appliance/available # scp administrator@xx.yy.zz.aa:/Downloads/VRTSaccess-app-update-8.3-1.x86_64.rpm .
  4. Log in to the Access Appliance node-level CLI and run the system software downloaded command to view details such as the patch name, size, and the version.