Upgrade from 7.1-2 to 7.3-2

[BLANQUART]

I am going to upgrade one of our 7.1-2 cluster and I want to know how to go to 7.3-2.
Regarding the releases notes of 7.3-2 and the french HP support, I must do it in two way, first 7.3 and then 7.3-2.

But on the hp web site , in the news "New OpenVMS OS upgrade chart available " from July 11, 2005 and in the FAQ, I saw I can directly go from 7.1-2 to 7.3-2.

Can someone confirm the direct way because I will save about 2 hours in my upgrade process ? Is it supported ?

Thanks

[Uwe Zessin]

When I evaluated this last year (V7.1 to V7.3-2), the situation was similar - no direct upgrade possible. The customer happened to have V7.2-2, so I used this for the first step.

[Antoniov.]

Like Uwe,
last year I had to upgrade in two steps.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Jan van den Ende]

Blanquart,

are you planning a ROLLING upgrade, or a shutdown-upgrade-freshboot procedure?

AFAIK, the stand-alone one-step upgrade is possible, but the rolling upgrade has to be done in (at least) two steps.

hth,

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Andy Bustamante]

>>I am going to upgrade one of our 7.1-2 cluster and I want to know how to go to 7.3-2.

Do you intend to upgrade only one system in a cluster? If so you should review Chapter 6 of the "Upgrade and Installation Manual" at http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/732FINAL/aa-rv8za-te/aa-rv8za-te.HTMl "Mixed-Version Support in an OpenVMS Cluster Environment "

Version 7.1-2 isn't documented to share a cluster with 7.3-2. It will probably work, but your support requirements may not make this a desireable configuration.

Andy

[BLANQUART]

It is a simple upgrade of a cluster two node with one system disk (shutdown-upgrade-freshboot) no rolling

[Venkat_18]

Hi,
Following is from OpenVMS 7.3-2 Release notes (section 1.4).

Upgrade Paths
V7.3-2

Upgrade Paths to Version 7.3-2

You can upgrade directly to OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3-2 from only the following
versions of OpenVMS Alpha:

Version 7.3-1
Version 7.3
Version 7.2-2
Version 7.2-1
Version 7.2-1H1
Version 7.2

If you are currently running OpenVMS Alpha Version 6.2x through 7.1x, you must do a two-step upgrade: first to Version 7.2-2 or 7.3, and then to Version 7.3-2. If you are running other versions of OpenVMS that are no longer supported, you will have to do multiple upgrades in accordance with
upgrade paths that were documented for
earlier versions.

Other documents you may want to check:

OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3-2 Upgrade and
Installation Manual
OpenVMS Version 7.3-2 New Features and
Documentation Overview
OpenVMS Version 7.3-2 Release Notes
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os732_index.html


--Venkat