Appendix C Installing VxFS and VxVM

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Previous HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environment Update Releases (OEURs) included the 4.1 version of VxFS and VxVM. Starting with the September 2008 OEUR, the following software is included:

VxFS 4.1 (Base-VXFS bundle) — required installed in all OEs
OnlineJFS 4.1 (B3929EA bundle) — recommended (default) installed in DC-OE, VSE-OE, and HA-OE
VxFS 5.0 (Base-VxFS-50 bundle) — optional in all OEs
OnlineJFS 5.0 (B3929FB bundle) — optional in DC-OE, VSE-OE, and HA-OE
VxVM 5.0 (Base-VxVM-50 bundle) — optional in all OEs

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is also present in all OEs and is recommended software (installed by default). This means that in the September 2008 OEUR, the default install selection for all systems is VxFS 4.1 + LVM.




	NOTE: VxFS 4.1 Considerations If your system has the minimum amount of memory, you may need to manually set VxFS tunables for optimal performance after cold-installing or updating to HP-UX 11i v3. For more information about these tunables, see Appendix B. If VxFS 5.0 has been used to create file systems with disk layout version 7, those disks will not be readable by the VxFS 4.1 that ships with HP-UX 11i v3. If you plan to update to 11i v3 with VxFS 4.1, before updating to HP-UX 11i v3, copy data from your DLV 7 file systems and onto file systems created at layout version 5 or 6. This step is not required if you plan to update to HP-UX 11i v3 with VxFS 5.0, because the 11i v3 VxFS 5.0 can read DLV 7 file systems.




	NOTE: VxVM 4.1 Replaced by VxVM 5.0 VxVM 4.1 is not included in the September 2008 OEUR or AR media. It has been replaced by VxVM 5.0. However, in the September 2008 OEUR, VxVM is not installed by default as it was in past OEURs. Explicit selection of VxVM 5.0 in the Ignite-UX tool is required to install VxVM.

All configurations, including VxVM installations, are achievable with proper selections in the Ignite-UX tool. The following sections describe the steps required to get to each possible configuration.

Appendix C Installing VxFS and VxVM

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