veritas licence and onlinejfs

[MADHU-CA]

OS version : HP UX 11 i v3.

OS : BOE

After Installation, I found veritas licence was not found.

I am using native LVM .

Will there be any problem in extending or reducing LV ,if Veritas Licence is not activated ?

I also found online JFS is not installed.

I understand without onlinejfs ,Filesystem can't be extended or reduced in online without onlinejfs.

Is there any relationship between veritas licence and onlinejfs ?

#vxlicrep

Symantec License Manager vxlicrep utility version 3.02.34.0
Copyright (C) 1996-2008 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved.

Creating a report on all VERITAS products installed on this system

vxlicrep ERROR V-21-3-1003 There are no valid VERITAS License keys installed in

P.S. This thread has been moved from HP-UX > System Administration to LVM and VxVM. - Hp Forum Moderator

[Bill Hassell]

HP-UX BOE = Base Operating Environment

That means that there are no optional products such as Online JFS, Mirror/UX, etc

Other operating environments such as MCOE and DCOE add in many optional products at a reduced cost. Otherwise, you can purchase Online JFS (which requires a Veritas license).

Without Online JFS, you must unmount filesystems in order to expand the size. Also, without Online JFS, you cannot reduce a filesystem at all. The filesystem must be recreated once the lvol is reduced in size, and the files restored from backup.

[MADHU-CA]

Thanks Bill,

Can you share the product list supported in BOE and other OE ?

[Dennis Handly]

>Can you share the product list supported in BOE and other OEs?

This may help but the picture is at a high level:

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/servers/hp-ux.html#tab=TAB2

Off to right is a data sheet on OEs:

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA3-5947ENW&cc=us&lc=en

[Bill Hassell]

As you can see from the contents of the DC-OE, VS-OE, HA-OE, these bundles contain many products, many of which you may never use (and they are quite expensive). If all you need are the MirrorDisk/UX, OnlineJFS and Glance products, it would be quite a bit cheaper to purchase these products individually.

[MADHU-CA]

Hi ,

Thanks for the information.

As you aware, Currently system is running with BOE.

I need to  upgrade BOE to VS-OE  from Ignite image.

I can't use  DVD to install OS.Only option I have is to upgrade OS from Ignite Image.

Is it possible to upgrade OE from ignite image ? if possible what should I need to do ?

Regards

Madhu

[Bill Hassell]

>> I need to  upgrade BOE to VS-OE  from Ignite image.

I think you are saying that you don't have a DVD player.

That's OK since the VS-OE  images are available as a download from HP once you purchase the upgrade.

[MADHU-CA]

Thanks Bill,

# cat /var/opt/ignite/data/INDEX

cfg "HP-UX 11iv3 VSE 1303 VSP Temp" {
        description "HP-UX 11iv3 VSE 1303 VSP Temp"
        "/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.31/config.golden"
        "/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.31/hw_patches_cfg"
        "/var/opt/ignite/data/VSP/core_vsp.cfg"
        "/var/opt/ignite/data/config.local"
}

I have the above lines in INDEX file,which mean I have golden image for VS-OE.

so confirm if below points works for me to upgrade?

1. go to client efi shell

2.create a dbprofile file.

3.boot with vs-oe image

But i am not able to find update-UX ...

so how can i perform upgradation ?

[Bill Hassell]

The Ignite image wil erase your existing boot disk and cold-install the new copy of HP-UX. It cannot be used for upgrading. The VSE version on your Ignite server was created by some media somewhere. Once you locate it, you can use that media to run update-ux.  The path to update-ux is /usr/sbin but you'll need the media available.

[MADHU-CA]

I understand that I need OS media(DVD) for upgrading .from ignite image it is not possible.

Is my understanding is correct ??