Veritas Access Appliance 8.4 Upgrade Guide

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.