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

Upgrading Access Appliance using the UI

Use the following procedure to upgrade a two-node or a one-node cluster configuration using the UI.

To upgrade the appliance:

  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 click Start upgrade.
  4. Review the displayed details and click Next.
  5. To upgrade a two-node cluster, do the following:

    • Choose the method for upgrading the cluster. Click Parallel to upgrade both the nodes in parallel. Click Rolling to upgrade each node successively.

    • Choose if you want to upgrade the Veritas Data Deduplication server.

    • Click Upgrade.

    To upgrade a single node cluster, choose if you want to upgrade the Veritas Data Deduplication server and click Upgrade.

    The progress details for the upgrade operation are displayed on the Software management page. The upgrade takes approximately 2 hours. The Upgrade completed successfully message is displayed after a successful upgrade. The Current version on the Software update tab is updated and the status of the software update package changes to Installed.

See Running an upgrade pre-check using the UI.