Re: [Veritas-ha] Solaris upgrade in a cluster - how tominimizedowntime ?

2008-02-12 Thread Anderson, Ryan C (US SSA)
I did exactly what you are talking about. The VCS documentation assumes you are doing an OS upgrade (upgrade the current Solaris 8 disk to 10), but I did LiveUpgrade to a new disk. Because of that, I ended up doing this: - Bring up the node as Solaris 10 without VCS - Manually installed the VCS 4.

Re: [Veritas-ha] Solaris upgrade in a cluster - how to minimizedowntime ?

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Hennessey
This is perfectly do-able with VCS 4.1, since 4.1 supports Solaris 8, 9 and 10. The general procedure at a high level is: 1. Freeze all service groups 2. Upgrade an idle node in the cluster 3. Once the upgraded node reboots and rejoins the cluster, unfreeze the service groups running on one of