topic Re: vxupgrade version 5 to 7 impact in combination with XP24000 BC in Operating System - HP-UX

vxupgrade version 5 to 7 impact in combination with XP24000 BC

vandevoort — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:58:41 GMT

Hi , we need to update a production Metro-cluster 11.23 towards 11.31 , with XP Business Copy ( BC) .

during this steps we also want to upgrade VxFS filesystems from Version 5 in two steps to Version 7 .

Unfortunately I can not test this part , but I expect no problems with this.

My question is : does BC have any impact in this ?

What I want to be sure is that when updating first system (package in our case Database-server -File systems ) from V5 into Version 7 and we do a relocate, I assume that BC keep all data identically so the other side is automatically also V7 ?

does anyone got any experience with this ?

second , I assume upgrading file system to V7 after both nodes are updated from 11.23 to 11.31 .

Thanks for any help idea's about this .

Kind regards .

Wim van de Voort

Re: vxupgrade version 5 to 7 impact in combination with XP24000 BC

chindi — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:14:46 GMT

Hi ,

We have upgraded production filesystems versions online from 5 to 7 , without any issues.

As far as BC copy is concerned , i dont think there is any problem , since it takes characteristcs from Source volume only .

But request you to wait for some more replies , from Giants before going ahead.

Re: vxupgrade version 5 to 7 impact in combination with XP24000 BC

Bill Hassell — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:13:23 GMT

BC (business copy) is a disk-to-disk copy. The XP array knows nothing about filesystems or directories -- it is just replicating the data sector by sector.