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 directly to an Access Appliance node

Use this procedure to download a software release update to an appliance node. For a rolling upgrade or a parallel upgrade, download the package to one of the nodes in the cluster. For a node-by-node upgrade, you need to download the package to both the nodes.

For more details about the upgrade methods, See About the Access Appliance upgrade.

To download software release updates directly to an appliance node, complete the following steps:

  1. If not already done so, open an SSH session and log on to the appliance as an administrator using the Access Appliance shell menu.
  2. To determine if a software update is available from the Veritas Support website, enter the following command:

    system software available-patch

    The software release update that is available for installation is displayed. Note the name of the software release update package. For example, VRTSaccess-app-update-8.3-1.x86_64.rpm

  3. To download the available software update, enter the following command:

    system software download-update update-name=update-name

    where update-name is the name of the software release update package. For example:system software download-update update-name=VRTSaccess-app-update-8.3-1.x86_64.rpm

    You can view the download progress by using the system software download-progress command.

    [access-8.2] node > system software download-progress

The status of VRTSaccess-app-update-8.3-1.x86_64.rpm is downloading, and the progress is:

[9%|ETA: 0:08:35]
  4. To verify that the software update has downloaded successfully, enter the following command:

    system software downloaded

    The downloaded software update is validated and details such as the patch name, size, and version are displayed.