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With Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09 and 3.2 1/09

Get support for the latest version of selected Veritas Storage Foundation software components with Solaris Cluster. Veritas Volume Manager and File System, part of Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1, are now supported on SPARC and X64 platforms with Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09 and 3.2 1/09. Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 5.1 Cluster Functionality (CVM) is supported on SPARC only.

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A Detailed How-to Explains the Procedures

This blog post presents the detailed procedure for upgrading Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and/or Solaris using Live Upgrade. Gerry Haskins explains that Solaris Live Upgrade is the feature that performs an operating system upgrade with no downtime. The upgrade is done on an alternate disk using the current boot environment (BE). After the Live Upgrade, the alternate disk has all the information from the current BE and just one reboot will bring the system up on the alternate disk with the upgraded Solaris Version.

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