HP OpenVMS Version 8.3-1H1 for Integrity Servers Upgrade and Installation Manual

HP Part Number: BA322-90077

Edition: 1.0

Published: October 2007

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Table of Contents

Preface

1 About this document
2 Intended Audience
3 When to Use This Manual
4 New and Changed Information in this Edition
5 Document Organization
6 Typographical Conventions
7 Related Information
8 Publishing History
9 HP Encourages Your Comments
10 How to Order Additional Documentation

1 Getting Started

1.1 Key Terms

1.2 Getting to Know Your Integrity Server

1.2.1 Entering Commands at Integrity Server Console Interfaces
1.2.2 Integrity Server Tools
1.2.3 Virtual Connect (VC) on HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosures
1.2.4 Cell-Based Server Terminology
1.2.5 Getting Started: Main Steps After You Unpack Your Integrity Server

1.3 Examining Software and Hardware Components

1.3.1 Hardware Components
1.3.2 Software Components
1.3.3 OpenVMS for Integrity Servers Operating Environment DVD
1.3.4 Firmware on Integrity Server Systems
1.3.5 Device-Naming Conventions

1.4 Using the Operating System Menu

1.4.1 Using the Install, Upgrade, or Reconfigure OpenVMS Option (1)
1.4.2 Using the Display Layered Products Option (2)
1.4.3 Using the Install or Upgrade Layered Products Option (3)
1.4.4 Using the Show Installed Products Option (4)
1.4.5 Using the Reconfigure Installed Products Option (5)
1.4.6 Using the Remove Installed Products Option (6)
1.4.7 Using the Patches and Recovery Data Option (7)
1.4.8 Using the Execute DCL Option (8)
1.4.9 Using the Shutdown Option (9)

1.5 Making the Install/Upgrade/Backup Selection

2 Preparing to Install in an OpenVMS Cluster Environment

2.1 Preinstallation Tasks for OpenVMS Cluster Environments
2.2 Review OpenVMS Cluster Information
2.3 Mixed-Version Support in OpenVMS Cluster Systems
2.4 OpenVMS Cluster Information You Need
2.5 Dismounting the Target System Disk Elsewhere in the Cluster
2.6 Beginning the Installation

3 Installing the OpenVMS Operating System

3.1 Installation Tasks

3.2 Booting the OpenVMS Operating System Media

3.2.1 Booting the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD

3.3 Installing the OpenVMS Operating System onto a System Disk

3.3.1 Differences Between OpenVMS I64 and Alpha Installations
3.3.2 Responding to Prompts During the Installation
3.3.3 Installing OpenVMS Using Option 1 of the Operating System Menu

3.4 Booting the New OpenVMS System Disk

3.4.1 Booting the OpenVMS I64 System Disk
3.4.2 Next Steps

3.5 Joining an OpenVMS Cluster

3.6 Running AUTOGEN

3.7 Rebooting After AUTOGEN

3.8 Logging In to the SYSTEM Account

3.8.1 Logging In from a Character-Cell Terminal
3.8.2 Logging In from a Workstation

3.9 Postinstallation Tasks

4 Before Upgrading the OpenVMS Operating System

4.1 Preupgrade Tasks

4.2 Documentation to Review Before Upgrading Your System

4.3 Notes, Cautions, and Restrictions

4.3.1 Upgrade Paths
4.3.2 Update License Requirements
4.3.3 Components You Choose Not to Install
4.3.4 Licenses and Layered Products

4.4 Saving Archived Files from Being Deleted by the Upgrade

4.5 Preparing the System Disk

4.5.1 Checking the Directory Structure and Preserving Your Security Protections
4.5.2 Checking the SYSCOMMON Directories
4.5.3 Examining the System Disk
4.5.4 Checking the Size of the System Disk
4.5.5 Returning Authorization and AGEN$INCLUDE Files to the System Disk
4.5.6 Verifying System Parameters

4.6 Ensuring You Have a Recent FEEDBACK.DAT File

4.7 Shadowing Environment

4.7.1 Setting the Boot Device
4.7.2 Creating a Nonshadowed Target Disk

4.8 Backing Up the System Disk

4.9 Finishing Preupgrade Tasks

5 Preparing to Upgrade in an OpenVMS Cluster Environment

5.1 Preupgrade Tasks for OpenVMS Cluster Environments

5.2 Review OpenVMS Cluster Information

5.3 Mixed-Version Support in an OpenVMS Cluster Environment

5.4 Adding a New System to an OpenVMS Cluster

5.5 Types of Upgrades

5.5.1 Concurrent Upgrade
5.5.2 Rolling Upgrade

6 Upgrading the OpenVMS Operating System

6.1 Upgrade Tasks

6.2 Booting the OpenVMS Operating System Media

6.2.1 Booting the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD

6.3 Performing the Upgrade

6.3.1 Upgrading the System Using Option 1 of the Operating System Menu
6.3.2 Choosing INITIALIZE or PRESERVE
6.3.3 Specifying the Target Disk
6.3.4 Selecting Reinstallation and Reconfiguration Options
6.3.5 Checking for Recovery Data
6.3.6 Specifying the Volume Label
6.3.7 Specifying the On-Disk Structure Level
6.3.8 Choosing Whether to Allow the Procedure to Create and Validate Boot Options
6.3.9 Warning About Removal of the DECRAM Command
6.3.10 Setting OpenVMS Cluster Membership Information
6.3.11 Updating Time Zone Information
6.3.12 Upgrading Windowing, Networking, and Related Products

6.4 Completing the Upgrade

6.4.1 Choosing Descriptive Help Text
6.4.2 Removing Older Versions of ENCRYPT
6.4.3 Secure Delivery Validation
6.4.4 Saving Archived Files
6.4.5 Selecting Product Component Options
6.4.6 Component and Product Installation Confirmation Messages
6.4.7 Upgrade Creates and Validates Boot Options
6.4.8 Upgrade Completes and Returns to OpenVMS Operating System Menu
6.4.9 Shutting Down the System

6.5 What to Do After Shutdown

7 After Installing or Upgrading the OpenVMS Operating System

7.1 Postinstallation and Postupgrade Tasks

7.2 Backing Up Your System Disk

7.3 Registering Your Licenses

7.4 Set System Parameters for Volume Shadowing (New Installations Only; Optional)

7.5 Running AUTOGEN to Set System Parameter Changes

7.6 Forming the Shadow Set

7.7 Customizing the System (New Installations, Some Upgrades)

7.7.1 Creating Network Proxy Authorization Files
7.7.2 Setting Up the Queue Manager and Default Queues
7.7.3 Configuring a Multihead System (Optional)
7.7.4 Configuring DECnet
7.7.5 Configuring HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS
7.7.6 Installing and Configuring Third-Party Networking Software

7.8 Initializing or Configuring Other Installed Components

7.8.1 Initializing CDSA (Optional)
7.8.2 Configuring the Availability Manager Base Software (Optional)
7.8.3 Configuring Kerberos (Optional)
7.8.4 Configuring SSL for OpenVMS (Optional)
7.8.5 Configure WBEM Services for OpenVMS (Optional)
7.8.6 Configure WBEM Providers for OpenVMS (Optional)
7.8.7 Configure the Instant Capacity Software (Optional)
7.8.8 Configure the Pay per use Software (Optional)
7.8.9 Configure HP SIM (Optional)
7.8.10 Initializing and Running the Performance Data Collector Base Software (Optional)
7.8.11 Preparing to Use OpenVMS Management Station (Optional)
7.8.12 Installing OpenVMS Debugger Clients on a PC (Optional)

7.9 Creating a System-Specific Login Welcome Message (Optional)

7.10 Examining Your Command Procedures (Upgrades Only)

7.11 Adding and Removing Operating System Files (Optional)

7.12 Compressing the System Libraries (Optional, OpenVMS I64: Not Recommended)

7.13 Installing Patches (Optional but Recommended)

7.14 Installing and Configuring Layered Products (New Installations, Some Upgrades)

7.14.1 Alternative Procedure

7.15 Creating Print Queues (New Installations, Some Upgrades)

7.16 Updating SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to Start Layered Products and Print Queues

7.17 Creating Accounts (New Installations, Some Upgrades)

7.18 Testing the System with UETP (Optional)

7.19 Backing Up the Customized System Disk and Initiating Systematic Backups

7.20 Reforming the Shadow Set as Final Postupgrade Backup

7.21 Rebooting Cluster Members (Upgrades Only)

7.22 Running AUTOGEN to Tune the System

7.23 Modifying System Parameters

7.23.1 General Notes About Modifying System Parameters
7.23.2 Modifying System Parameters After an Upgrade

A Configuring OpenVMS I64 Hardware Operation and Boot Operations, and Booting and Shutting Down Your System

A.1 Configuration and Management Utilities for HP Integrity Servers

A.1.1 Overview of Utilities and Console Options
A.1.2 Configuration and Management Utilities on Cell-Based Servers
A.1.3 Using the Delete or Backspace Key with Integrity Server Utilities

A.2 Selecting Your OpenVMS Console for the Integrity Server System

A.2.1 Selecting Your OpenVMS Console (Not Applicable to rx2600 Integrity Servers)
A.2.2 Selecting Your OpenVMS Console on rx2600 Integrity Servers

A.3 Overview of Using EFI

A.3.1 General Notes About Using EFI

A.4 Enabling or Disabling Hyper-Threading on Dual-Core Processors

A.5 Configuring and Managing OpenVMS Booting on Integrity Servers

A.5.1 Checking the ACPI Configuration for Booting OpenVMS in an nPartition
A.5.2 Setting Boot Options for Your System Disk
A.5.3 Writing a New Boot Block
A.5.4 Alpha and Equivalent Integrity Server System Boot Commands

A.6 Booting Operations

A.6.1 Overview of Booting on a Cell-Based Server
A.6.2 Booting the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD from the Local Drive
A.6.3 Booting the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD from the InfoServer
A.6.4 Booting an Image of the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD Using HP SIM Provisioning
A.6.5 Booting an Image of the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD Using vMedia
A.6.6 Booting from a Fibre Channel Device
A.6.7 Booting Manually from the Local System Disk
A.6.8 Performing a Conversational (Interactive) Boot
A.6.9 Booting with Minimum Startup
A.6.10 Booting with the XDelta Utility (XDELTA)
A.6.11 Booting from a Different Root Directory
A.6.12 Emergency Booting

A.7 Halt and Shutdown Procedures

A.7.1 Halting the Integrity Server to Recover from Hangs and Crashes
A.7.2 Shutting Down the System

A.8 Troubleshooting Procedures

A.8.1 If the System Does Not Boot
A.8.2 Detecting and Responding to System Problems

B Setting Up and Performing Network Booting

B.1 About the OpenVMS InfoServer Utility

B.2 Setting Up Your System as an InfoServer Client

B.2.1 Determining the Local Network I/O Card to Be Used
B.2.2 Adding the Network Boot Option to the EFI Boot Manager
B.2.3 Verifying the Network I/O Device Is Bootable by EFI

B.3 Setting Up the InfoServer Server

B.4 Setting Up the BOOTP Boot Server and TFTP Server

B.5 Booting OpenVMS I64 from the InfoServer

B.6 Troubleshooting InfoServer Boot Problems

C Using HP SIM and vMedia to Install and Upgrade OpenVMS

C.1 HP SIM Provisioning of OpenVMS

C.1.1 About HP SIM and Provisioning
C.1.2 Prerequisites for HP SIM Provisioning
C.1.3 Setting Up InfoServer Support
C.1.4 Setting Up vMedia
C.1.5 Setting Up HP SIM and the Windows Server to Provision OpenVMS
C.1.6 Provisioning OpenVMS

C.2 Using vMedia Independently of HP SIM

C.2.1 Prerequisites for Using vMedia to Install or Upgrade OpenVMS
C.2.2 Using vMedia to Install or Upgrade OpenVMS

D Setting Up and Booting Fibre Channel Storage Devices

D.1 Booting on a Fibre Channel Storage Device on OpenVMS I64 Systems

D.1.1 Checking the Firmware Version
D.1.2 Obtaining the IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities
D.1.3 Configuring and Booting FC Boot Device
D.1.4 Configuring Additional Nodes to Boot into a Cluster Using a Shared Disk

E Backing Up and Restoring the System Disk

E.1 Reasons for Backing Up the System Disk

E.2 Suggested Procedures

E.3 OpenVMS Cluster Caution

E.4 Backing Up the System Disk

E.4.1 Getting Started
E.4.2 Mounting Devices
E.4.3 Performing the System Disk Backup
E.4.4 Changing the Disk Volume Cluster Size
E.4.5 Logging Out, Shutting Down, and Rebooting

E.5 Restoring the System Disk

E.5.1 Getting Started
E.5.2 Mounting Devices
E.5.3 Performing the System Disk Restore
E.5.4 Logging Out, Shutting Down, and Rebooting

E.6 Alternative Backup and Restore Procedure (Minimum OpenVMS Environment)

E.6.1 Preparing an Alternate System Disk
E.6.2 Using the Alternate System Disk

F Installing the OpenVMS Internationalization Data Kit

G Preparing to Use OpenVMS Management Station

G.1 Preparing Your OpenVMS System

G.1.1 Setting Up in a Mixed-Architecture Cluster Environment
G.1.2 Starting the Server on Other Nodes
G.1.3 Error Log Information
G.1.4 Updating the Printer and Storage Database
G.1.5 Editing the System Files
G.1.6 Controlling the Printer and Storage Environment
G.1.7 Keeping Your Printer Environment Up to Date
G.1.8 Keeping Your Storage Environment Up to Date
G.1.9 Enabling Disk Quotas
G.1.10 Caching Storage Configuration Data
G.1.11 Running Third-Party TCP/IP Stacks
G.1.12 Determining and Reporting Problems
G.1.13 Removing the OpenVMS Management Station Server

G.2 Preparing Your PC

G.2.1 Required Memory and Disk Space
G.2.2 Distribution Files
G.2.3 Required Software
G.2.4 Time Required for Installation
G.2.5 Copying the Client File to the PC
G.2.6 Installation Directory
G.2.7 Installation Procedure
G.2.8 Recovering from Errors

G.3 After Installing the Client Software on Your PC

G.4 Defining TCP/IP Nodes

G.5 Removing Version 2.1 of the OpenVMS Management Station Client

G.6 Removing OpenVMS Management Station

G.7 Getting Started with OpenVMS Management Station

H Removing the OpenVMS Operating System

I Alternative Ways to Initialize the System Disk

I.1 Alternative Method of Initialization
I.2 Removing the Diagnostic Partition File

Glossary

Index

List of Figures

D-1 Fibre Channel Host and SAN Storage Controller Configuration

List of Tables

1-1 Definitions of Terms
1-2 Getting OpenVMS Started on Integrity Servers
2-1 Preinstallation Checklist
2-2 Warranted Cluster Support
2-3 Supported Migration Pairs
3-1 Installation Checklist
3-2 Prompts for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations
4-1 Preupgrade Checklist
4-2 Logical Names for Relocated Authorization Files
5-1 Preupgrade Checklist for OpenVMS Cluster Environments
5-2 Warranted Cluster Support
5-3 Supported Migration Pairing
6-1 Upgrade Checklist
7-1 Postinstallation and Postupgrade Checklist
A-1 Alpha and Integrity Server EFI Command Equivalents
A-2 SYSGEN Commands Used in the SYSBOOT Procedure
A-3 Emergency Boot Procedures
B-1 InfoServer Booting: Differences Between Alpha and I64 Systems
B-2 Procedure for Enabling InfoServer Network Booting

List of Examples

3-1 Component Options and Suboptions
B-1 Setting Up the Boot Server and Client