Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Getting started
- Managing network settings
- Managing users
- Overview of the Flex Appliance default users
- Changing the password policy
- Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
- Adding a tenant
- Editing a tenant
- Removing a tenant
- Adding a local user to the Flex Appliance Console
- Connecting an Active Directory domain to the Flex Appliance Console
- Importing an Active Directory user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Editing an Active Directory domain in the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing a user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Expiring a user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Removing a user from the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
- Changing the sysadmin user password in the Veritas Remote Management Interface
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Creating application instances
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Upgrading application instances
- About Flex Appliance upgrades and updates
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Upgrading Flex Appliance
Use the following procedure to upgrade the Flex Appliance software from version 2.0.1 to a later release.
Note:
If more than the Veritas-tested number of Fibre Channel devices or paths are connected to the appliance, Veritas recommends that you disable the ports or disconnect the devices before you begin this procedure. When the procedure is complete, reenable or reconnect them. You may need to rescan the ports from the Fibre Channel interfaces page.
To upgrade Flex Appliance
- On the Flex Appliance Console, click the Repository icon in the left-side navigation bar and navigate to the Appliance upgrades and updates tab.
- Make sure that the upgrade package you want to use is located in the repository. See Managing the repository.
- Navigate to System topology > Application instances to check the status of the application instances.
- Do one of the following:
If you have a single-node appliance, stop all running instances.
If you have a multi-node appliance, stop all running instances or select the node that you want to upgrade first and relocate all of its instances to the other node.
- On the node that you want to upgrade, use the Veritas Remote Management Interface to log in to the Flex Appliance Shell. If you have a multi-node appliance and chose to relocate instances, log in to the node that has no running instances.
Note:
Veritas recommends that you log in from the Veritas Remote Management Interface instead of an SSH session to perform an upgrade. To access the Veritas Remote Management Interface, refer to the initial configuration procedure. See Performing the initial configuration.
- Enter the following command:
system upgrade
Follow the prompts to enter the file name of the upgrade package and start the upgrade.
Note that the percent complete that shows for the upgrade progress can pause for approximately 15 minutes. This behavior is normal.
Warning:
Do not start any application instances while the upgrade is in progress.
- After the upgrade processes run, a prompt appears to restart the node. Confirm the restart to complete the upgrade, or you can restart it at a later time with the system restart apply-upgrade command.
Warning:
If you have a multi-node appliance, do not restart both nodes at the same time.
- When the upgrade process is done, refresh your browser cache and sign back in to the Flex Appliance Console.
- If you have a multi-node appliance, stop or relocate all instances on the other node.
Then repeat the upgrade on the other node.
- Once the upgrade has completed on all nodes, you must decide whether you want to commit the new version or roll back to the previous version.
Note:
Some operations are restricted until you commit or roll back, or if the nodes are running different software versions. You also should not edit any settings during these times. Upgrade both nodes and complete the rest of this procedure to restore full functionality.
Do one of the following:
To commit the new version, run the following command.
system upgrade-commit
If you have a multi-node appliance, you only need to run this command on one of the nodes.
To roll back to the previous version, stop all instances on the appliance and then run the following command:
system rollback
If you have a multi-node appliance, you must run this command on all nodes.
Warning:
If you have a multi-node appliance, you must roll back all nodes before you perform any other operations, including retrying an upgrade. Complete the rollback and restart on the first node before proceeding with the next node.
- The upgrade is now complete. Refresh your browser cache before you sign back in to the Flex Appliance Console.
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