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

Installing EEBs

You can install Emergency Engineering Binaries (EEBs) from the GUI using the rolling or the parallel method. In the rolling method, EEBs are installed on each node successively. In the parallel method, EEBs are installed on all the nodes in parallel. Depending on the type of EEB that you choose to install, you have the following installation options:

  • Data EEBs: You can use only the rolling method to install the EEBs.

  • Non-data EEBs: You can use the rolling or the parallel method to install the EEBs.

  • Both data and non-data EEBs: You can use only the rolling method to install the EEBs.

Note:

If disaster recovery is configured, you must upload and install the EEBs separately on both the sites.

To install an EEB:

  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 > EEBs.

    EEBs that are already uploaded on the node are displayed on the EEBs tab.

  3. To upload an EEB:

    • If there are no EEBs on the node, click Choose EEBs, browse to the system where you had previously downloaded the EEBs, select the EEBs that you want to upload, and then click Upload file.

    • If there are EEBs present on the node but the EEB that you want to install is not in the displayed list, click Add. In the Upload EEBs screen, click Choose EEBs, browse to the system where you had previously downloaded the EEBs, select the EEBs that you want to upload, and then click Add.

      The EEBs are uploaded to the inst/patch/appliance/available location on the node and are shown with Available status on the EEBs tab.

      You can upload multiple EEBs simultaneously. EEBs are uploaded to one of the nodes.

  4. On the EEBs tab, select the EEBs that you want to install and click Install.

    If only data EEBs are selected, you can perform only the rolling installation. If non-data EEBs are selected, when prompted, choose whether you want to use the rolling or the parallel option. If both data and non-data EEBs are selected, you can perform only a rolling installation. Click Install

    A notification about the EEB installation is displayed on top of the page. To monitor the progress, click View details. After the EEB is installed, the status of the EEB changes from Available to Installed.

See Rolling back EEBs.

See Removing EEBs.