Hello Venkata!
You say "you can upgrade the zone from one node keeping it in running state". How can I keep the zone in running state if I must do a failover of a service group to another node to perform phase upgrade? How can I upgrade my OS on a giving node if some of my zones are in running state (service groups are online) but some other zones a in "configured" state (services groups are offline on the node)? How can I upgrade my zone if it has shared resources online on another node? How can I use Solaris Live Upgrade with Storage Foundation HA? Is it possible or not? I tried to explain the problem and give the resolution the way I see it. I wish Symantec could give all the required explanations... Regards, Pavel From: Venkata Reddy Chappavarapu [mailto:venkatareddy_chappavar...@symantec.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:08 AM To: Цветков Павел Анатольевич; mamatec...@mamatec.com Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-ha] upgrade VCS 5.1 with many zones Hi Fred, While upgrading the SFHA you have to keep the zones in the running state and all the applications running inside the zone should be stopped. If you have a zone with root on shared storage, you can upgrade the zone from one node keeping it in running state and in configured state on all other nodes. All this information is documented in the installation guide for both SFHA and VCS products. Please feel free to contact us if you are facing any specific issues while upgrading the product to 5.1SP1 or 6.0. Thanks & Regards, Venkata Reddy Chappavarapu From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of p.tsvet...@inform.gazprom.ru Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:39 PM To: mamatec...@mamatec.com Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] upgrade VCS 5.1 with many zones Hi! Hi Fred! Just a few questions: 1. Are your mount resources monitored from local zone or global zone? 2. Do you have them in local zone xml file or you mount them directly from global zone or using loopback mounts? 3. Do you plan to offline your local zone or your localzones are running in parallel on two nodes? Regards, Pavel Hi, all Ok ...so I'm very familiar with live upgrade but, my problem is how to upgrade Veritas Cluster when all zones are shares with failover and every zone has multiple vxfs file systems for example: Mount mount_oracleCCPsapdata1 Critical = 0 MountPoint = "/oracle/CCP/sapdata1 BlockDevice = " /dev/vx/dsk/oraccp_dg/oraccp_data1 FSType = vxfs FsckOpt = "-y " Zpool root_CCP ( Critical = 0 PoolName = root_CCP AltRootPath= " / " ZoneResname = zone_root_CCP If I put the application service group offline and only zone_root_CCP is online, it'a good idea? Thanks Fred 2012/3/27 <p.tsvet...@inform.gazprom.ru> Hi! Something more to it. It is important to note, that vxfs patch must be installed in local zones. It means that local zones must be in running or booted state. If you make failover a zone to another node before upgrade than your local zone cannot be in running state on the first node. It can be in installed state. But when you start patching your local zone on the first node , the zone must change its state from "installed" to "booted" to be patched. There is no problem if the local zone does not have in its configuration any veritas volumes and file systems which have been started up on the second node. If so your local zone on the first node cannot "see" its resources and cannot go from "installed" into "booted" state to be patched up. That is the reason why "failover resources" must not be present in local zone configuration. They must be mounted from global zone directly. Regards, Pavel From: Fred [mailto:mamatec...@mamatec.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:38 AM To: Цветков Павел Анатольевич Cc: colin.y...@gmail.com; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] upgrade VCS 5.1 with many zones Hi all my SF-HA origin is 5.1rp1 for Solaris and I should to upgrade to 5.1 SP1 or 6.0, NOT upgrade Solaris but only SFHA. What about rolling upgrade, it's possible doing on two node cluster? How to? Thanks Fred 2012/3/26 <p.tsvet...@inform.gazprom.ru> Hello all! What about using Solaris LiveUpgrade ? It is possible to use it with VCS. There are some tricks though ... You should keep in mind the following. 1. Do not use zpool cluster resource if you don't failover zpools. This is because of the fact, that Offline entry point for zpool does zpool export. This is a not a good thing for "init 6" which must be run after activating New Boot Environment. If you have questions about this point just ask me. 2. main.cf types.cf must be in synclist file. 3. zfs file systems must NOT have mountpoint=legacy. Mountpoint must stay default. 4. Zone resources . Check DetachZone = false (Zone must stay in installed state while it is offlined. This is required to create ABE for zones as well as to patch zones). ForceAttach must be true if you use Veritas ODM for Oracle DB. 5. If you have vxfs mounted inside zones mount them from outside. It means that vxfs file systems must not be present in zone configuration files , they must be mounted with mount command from global zone. 6. You should have the following cluster configuration: SapTaskGroup (monitored from local zone - sap & oracle resources without mount points for sap and oracle f.s.) | online local firm | Mount_SapGroup (monitored from global zone - sap & oracle mount points on vxfs f.s. - mounted from global zone ) | online local HARD | Zone_SapGroup ( only zone resource itself - monitored from local zone) If you have dialog instances than you can have them as parallel service groups in local zones. This is about all. After that you can do the following: 1. lucreate -n MyNewBoot 2. Upgrade Solaris version with command luupgrade -u -n MyNewBoot -s /mnt/iso -k /var/tmp/sysidcfg 2. Install Recommended Patch Cluster on MyNewBOOT with all zones in parallel (check /etc/patches/pdo.conf num_proc > 1) /installcluster -B MyNewBoot --s10patchset 3. install veritas patches for i in `cat /sample/patch_order` do luupgrade -t -n MyNewBoot -s /sample $i done 4. Luactivate MyNewBoot 5. init 6 This is not easy to do everything without errors. Please, create your test environment and see first. Good luck! Pavel -----Original Message----- From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Colin Yemm Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 5:13 AM To: Fred Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] upgrade VCS 5.1 with many zones Short version: Um, something is wrong. Once you figure out what VCS version you are running, you should be able to do a rolling upgrade (node-by-node) if it is 5.1. I haven't been able to find a definitive statement about 5.0 (except how to upgrade from 5.0MP3RP2 to 5.1SP1), but I seem to remember it can be done, but is a somewhat manual process. Are you running 5.1 or 5.0? I ask, because while 5.0 has MP3, the latest VCS version for 5.1 on UNIX is 51SP1 (actually 51SP1RP2, aka SFHA 5.1 Service Pack 1 Rolling Patch 2). (There are Point Patches for some packages as well - the VRTSvxvm on my Clariion-attached servers is 51SP1RP2PP2 ;-) By my math the next thing to be released on 5.1 will be either 51SP1RP3, or they may just jump straight to 51SP2, depending on how many bug fixes are included. Check the patch finder on SORT (sort.symantec.com) for more info. Colin Who is having all kinds of fun right now dealing with SFHA versions going all the way back to 3.5 ;-) On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Fred <mamatec...@mamatec.com> wrote: > Hi all, > How is the best practice to upgrade VCS 5.1 to 5.1MP3? > > the global zone is ZFS, the VCS sg are a lot of zone (with zfs), with > sap apllication over vxvfs file systems. > Is it possibile to upgrade one node at time without offline of > services groups but for example only application? > > thanks in advance > > Laura > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha _______________________________________________ Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha
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