Upgrading Integrity Servers from the sx1000 to sx2000 Chipset

You can upgrade the following Integrity servers from the sx1000 to sx2000 chipsets:

rx7620 to rx7640
rx8620 to rx8640
Integrity Superdome

To perform the hardware upgrade, follow the process documented in the hardware upgrade manual for your server.




	CAUTION: Upgrade Notes vPars A.04.02 or later is required for vPars running on HP Integrity servers with the sx2000 chipset. PHKL_34088 is also required for vPars running on HP Integrity servers with the sx2000 chipset. The physical hardware upgrade from the rx7620 to rx7640 requires a cold-install of the OS and therefore of vPars as well. Only Hewlett-Packard qualified service personnel can perform hardware upgrades from rx8620 to rx8640 or from Integrity/sx1000 Superdome to Integrity/sx2000 Superdome. While performing the hardware upgrades, HP qualified service personnel will reference the following documents when making the necessary HP-UX and vPars configuration changes: HP I/O Hardware Upgrade Scripts Guide for HP Integrity Superdome/sx2000 Servers and HP-UX Impacts on the Upgrade Process for the rx8620 to rx8640 Hardware Upgrade. Be aware that instead of performing the upgrades for vPars, LVM, etc., you also have the option of performing a cold-install on the post-upgrade hardware as if they were new systems with no previous installations.

Hardware Path Changes

The upgrade changes the hardware paths. For the new hardware paths as well as the hardware upgrade process, see the upgrade manual for your server. For reference, the changes are noted in the tables at the end of this section:

vPars Database Changes

As part of the upgrade process, HP qualified service personnel will need to make updates to each virtual partition’s vPars database (vpdb) in nPars mode following the server hardware changes. These and other necessary steps are described in the HP I/O Hardware Upgrade Scripts Guide for HP Integrity Superdome/sx2000 Servers and HP-UX Impacts on the Upgrade Process for the rx8620 to rx8640 Hardware Upgrade service documents.

Hardware Path Tables

The tables below show the new hardware paths. For details on the new hardware paths and other hardware information, see the applicable hardware upgrade manuals for your server, available at http://docs.hp.com.

Table 4-1 rx7620 to rx7640 Hardware Path Changes

rx7620 Path	rx7640 Path	Description
1/0/1/1/0/1/1.6	1/0/1/1/0/4/1.6	Top right HDD using A6794A or AB290A
0/0/0/3/0.6	0/0/0/3/0.6	Bottom left HDD using MP/SCSI
0/0/0/3/0.5	0/0/1/1/0/4/1.5	Bottom right HDD using MP/SCSI or AB290A
1/0/0/3/1.x	1/0/0/3/1.x	Internal DVD/tape (x=2 for DVD, x=3 for DAT)
	0/0/0/3/1.2	Bottom slimline DVD, if present
1/0/1/1/0/4/0	1/0/1/1/0/6/0	Primary LAN
	1/0/1/1/0/6/1	Secondary LAN
0/0/8/1/0/4/0	0/0/1/1/0/6/0	Primary LAN
	0/0/1/1/0/6/1	Secondary LAN
1/0/1/1/0/1/0.x	1/0/1/1/0/4/0.x	external SCSI (A6794A/AB290A)
	1/0/1/1/0/4/1.x	external SCSI (AB290A), shared with internal HDD
0/0/8/1/0/1/0.x	0/0/1/1/0/4/0.x	external SCSI (A6794A/AB290A)
	0/0/1/1/0/4/1.x	external SCSI (AB290A), shared with internal HDD

Table 4-2 rx8620 to rx8640 Hardware Path Changes

rx8620 Path	rx8640 Path	Description
0/0/0/0/0	N/A	simplecom
0/0/0/0/1	[rootcell]/250/2	console UART
1/0/0/0/0	N/A	simplecom
1/0/0/0/1	[rootcell]/250/2	console UART

Table 4-3 Integrity Superdome Hardware Path Changes (x=cell)

Slot	sx1000 Path	sx2000 Path
0	x/0/0/1	x/0/0/1
1	x/0/1/1	x/0/1/1
2	x/0/2/1	x/0/2/1
3	x/0/3/1	x/0/4/1
4	x/0/4/1	x/0/5/1
5	x/0/6/1	x/0/6/1
6	x/0/14/1	x/0/14/1
7	x/0/12/1	x/0/13/1
8	x/0/11/1	x/0/12/1
9	x/0/10/1	x/0/10/1
10	x/0/9/1	x/0/9/1
11	x/0/8/1	x/0/8/1

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