HP-UX Integrity VM Host upgrade (OS 11i v2 & VM A.03.50)

[ashutosh99]

Hi All,

I need to do an upgrade of VM Host running HP-UX 11i v2 and Integrity VM A.03.50. So, I followed the procedure given on HP's resources and got stuck on this particular problem.

I want to run this command "hpvmupgrade" to check for problems with guest OSes after the upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3 and VM 4.00. But, I cann't seem to find this command with my installed package. 

Can somebody please guide me if I can use this utility with version 3.5 Integrity VM or not ? If I can, then how and do I need to install any new package or patch.

Regards,

Ashutosh Singh

[Stan_M]

HPVM Install and Admin manual mentions that hpvmupgrade command is part of V4.X releases. You need to install VMGuestLib which can be downloaded from software.hp.com or from 11.23 Application Release DVD (Sep 2008 or newer).

HTH

Stan

[ashutosh99]

Hi Stan,
Thanks for the quick reply. I tried to install the VMGuestLib, but it gave me the below output.

# swinstall -s /home/ashutosh/Pre_req_dump/VMGuestLib_A.03.50_HP-UX_B.11.23_IA.depot \*

======= 12/11/12 02:30:33 PST BEGIN swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive) (jobid=*******-0148)

* Session started for user "root@*******".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "*******:/".
* Source:
/home/ashutosh/Pre_req_dump/VMGuestLib_A.03.50_HP-UX_B.11.23_IA.depot

* Targets: *******:/
* Software selections:
VMGuestLib,r=A.03.50,a=HP-UX_B.11.23_IA,v=HP
vmGuestLib.GUEST-LIB,r=A.03.50,a=HP-UX_B.11.23_IA,v=HP,fr=A.03.50,fa=HP-UX_B.11.23_IA
* Selection succeeded.


* Beginning Analysis and Execution
* Session selections have been saved in the file
"/root/.sw/sessions/swinstall.last".
* "*******:/": 1 filesets have the selected revision already
installed.
* "*******:/": 1 bundles have the selected revision already
installed.
* Analysis and Execution succeeded.


NOTE: More information may be found in the agent logfile using the
command "swjob -a log *******-0148 @ *******:/".

======= 12/11/12 02:30:36 PST END swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)
(jobid=*******-0148)

[Stan_M · Accepted solution]

Get VMGuestLib from some V4.X version

[ashutosh99]

Thanks Stan. I was installing the same version again and that's why I didn't get the hpvmupgrade utility. But, I installed the 4.0 version and everything seems fine now.

Regards,
Ashutosh

[Dave Olker]

I'm not sure which "4.0 version" you just upgraded to but I certainly hope it's v4.3 or you'll be needing to upgrade again pretty soon.  Looking at section 4.1 of the latest release notes document:

Integrity VM     Release Date     Expected End of Support Date  Current Status
Version
A.03.50          December 2007    Same as HP-UX 11i v2          Supported
B.04.20          March 2010       March 2013                    Supported
B.04.20.05       September 2010   September 2013                Supported
B.04.30          March 2011       March 2014                    Supported

The v4.2 and v4.2.5 releases are going EOSL next year, so hopefully you bought yourself some time by going to v4.3.

Regards,

Dave