Upgrading 11i Standard to 11i Enterprise

[Dan Hardison]

We'll soon be receiving a couple new Itanium2 servers with 11i Standard pre-installed. If we move forward with the Standard edition of the o/s, is it possible to "upgrade" to the Enterprise edition at a later date? Or is the Enterprise edition just a bunch modules (i.e. MirrorDisk, OnlineJFS, Glance, MW, etc) that we can purchase and install when necessary?

Thanks,
Dan

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi


See
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/5185-6511/5185-6511_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/5185-6511/00/00/21-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/5185-6511/00/00/21-toc.html&searchterms=11i&queryid=20041028-071426

Changing Operating Environments



Each HP-UX 11i media kit contains at least one operating environment (OE). The extra-cost Enterprise and Mission Critical OEs each contain the HP-UX 11i OE and the extra-cost OE. If you did not purchase an extra-cost OE, the HP-UX 11i OE bundle is supplied for servers and Technical Computing OE is supplied for technical workstations and technical servers. If you did not install one of these OE bundles of basic applications, you can do so later.
Upgrading to a larger OE may require more disk space. See "Needing More Disk Space?" in Chapter 1.

Adding an OE



To install an OE on an 11i system not containing an OE, insert an HP-UX 11i CD1 in the CD drive (for example mounted at /cdrom) and specify the new OE using update-ux. For example, to add the default HP-UX 11i OE, enter:

/usr/sbin/update-ux -s /cdrom HPUX11i-OE

After a few minutes, update-ux will prompt you to replace 11i OE CD1 with 11i OE CD2, then complete the update. Similarly, if you did not initially install or upgrade a workstation with the no-cost Minimal Technical OE or extra-cost Technical Computing OE, you can add that bundle using update-ux from the Technical Computing OE CDs. For example, to install the no-cost MTOE, enter:

/usr/sbin/update-ux -s /cdrom HPUX11i-MTOE

Upgrading the OE



To upgrade 11i to a higher-level OE, say, from 11i OE to Enterprise OE, you must first purchase the new HP-UX 11i Enterprise OE (or Mission Critical OE) media from HP. Then use update-ux to add the Enterprise OE software bundle to your server from those CDs.

To upgrade from the HP-UX 11i OE to the Mission Critical OE, insert an HP-UX 11i Mission Critical OE CD1 in the CD drive (for example mounted at /cdrom) and enter:

/usr/sbin/update-ux -s /cdrom HPUX11i-OE-MC

When the update is complete, the Mission Critical OE will be installed and the original HP-UX 11i OE bundle wrapper will be removed.

Downgrading the OE



If you wish to downgrade your system from a higher-level OE, say, from Mission Critical OE to 11i OE, first use update-ux to install the smaller OE from the latest set of HP-UX 11i CDs, then use swremove to remove the unwanted OE bundle and its software. For example, to move from the 64-bit Mission Critical OE to the 64-bit default 11i OE:

Step 1. As root, add default HP-UX 11i OE (in this example from CD1 and CD2 mounted, in turn, at /cdrom):

/usr/sbin/update-ux -s /cdrom -y HPUX11i-OE

The -y option tells update-ux to ignore warning messages and complete the update.
Step 2. Remove the Mission Critical software:

/usr/sbin/swremove HPUX11i-OE-MC

This command removes the IPD entries and software for the additional (superset) software in the Mission Critical OE, leaving the default HP-UX 11i OE software intact.




Steve Steel