Storage Foundation 7.4.2 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Linux
- Section I. Introduction and configuration of Storage Foundation
- Section II. Upgrade of Storage Foundation
- Planning to upgrade Storage Foundation
- About the upgrade
- Supported upgrade paths
- Preparing to upgrade SF
- Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade full releases (base, maintenance, rolling patch), and individual patches
- Upgrading Storage Foundation
- Performing an automated SF upgrade using response files
- Performing post-upgrade tasks
- Optional configuration steps
- Re-joining the backup boot disk group into the current disk group
- Reverting to the backup boot disk group after an unsuccessful upgrade
- Recovering VVR if automatic upgrade fails
- Resetting DAS disk names to include host name in FSS environments
- Upgrading disk layout versions
- Upgrading VxVM disk group versions
- Updating variables
- Setting the default disk group
- Verifying the Storage Foundation upgrade
- Planning to upgrade Storage Foundation
- Section III. Post configuration tasks
- Section IV. Configuration and Upgrade reference
- Appendix A. Installation scripts
- Appendix B. Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications
- About configuring secure shell or remote shell communication modes before installing products
- Manually configuring passwordless ssh
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the installer -comsetup command
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the pwdutil.pl utility
- Restarting the ssh session
- Enabling rsh for Linux
Supported upgrade paths
You can upgrade to Veritas InfoScale 7.4.2 only if your currently installed product has one of the base versions: 6.2.1, 7.2, 7.3.1, 7.4.1. If your existing installation does not have one of these base versions, you must first upgrade your current installation to one of these versions. Then, follow the procedures mentioned in the Configuration and Upgrade Guide for the component configured with your InfoScale product.
If you are on an unsupported operating system version, ensure that you first upgrade to a supported version of the operating system. Also, upgrades between major operating system versions are not supported, for example, from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7. If you plan to upgrade from one major operating system version to another, you need to reinstall the product. For supported operating system versions, see the Veritas InfoScale Release Notes.
Table: Supported upgrade paths on RHEL, Oracle Linux, and SLES lists the supported upgrade paths for upgrades on RHEL, Oracle Linux, and SELS.
Table: Supported upgrade paths on RHEL, Oracle Linux, and SLES
From product version | From OS version | To OS version | To product version | To Component |
|---|---|---|---|---|
6.2.1 | RHEL 7 Update 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7 Oracle Linux 7 Update 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 SLES 12 SP0, SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4 | RHEL 7 Update7 RHEL 8 Update 1 Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 SLES 12 SP4, SP5 SLES 15 SP1 | Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 | SF |
7.2 | RHEL 7 Update 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Oracle Linux 7 Update 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 SLES 12 SP0, SP1, SP2 | RHEL 7 Update7 RHEL 8 Update 1 Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 SLES 12 SP4, SP5 SLES 15 SP1 | Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 | SF |
7.3.1 | RHEL 7 Update 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Oracle Linux 7 Update 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 CentOS 7 Update 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 SLES 12 SP2, SP3, SP4, SP5 | RHEL 7 Update7 RHEL 8 Update 1 Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 CentOS 7 Update 7 CentOS 8 Update 1 SLES 12 SP4, SP5 SLES 15 SP1 | Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 | SF |
7.4.1 | RHEL 7 Update 4, 5, 6, 7 RHEL 8 update 1 Oracle Linux 7 Update 4, 5, 6, 7 CentOS 7 Update 4, 5, 6 , 7 SLES 12 SP2, SP3, SP4, SP5 SLES 15 SP1 | RHEL 7 Update7 RHEL 8 Update 1 Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 CentOS 7 Update 7 CentOS 8 Update 1 SLES 12 SP4, SP5 SLES 15 SP1 | Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 | SF |