Silicon Graphics InfiniteStorage 4000 Series System Upgrade Manual page 6

Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Appendix A
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Upgrade Instructions for the Solaris OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Supported Components for Solaris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Installing the Storage Management Software on the Solaris OS . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Checking the Installation on the Solaris OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Uninstalling the Storage Management Software on the Solaris OS. . . . . . . . . 116
Upgrade Instructions for the Linux OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
System Requirements for Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
System Requirements for Linux with InfiniBand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Installing the Storage Management Software on the Linux OS . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Checking the Installation on the Linux OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Uninstalling Storage Management Software on the Linux OS . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Upgrade Instructions for the Windows OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
System Requirements for Windows Server 2003 and XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
System Requirements for Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V and Vista . . . . . . 130
Installing the Storage Management Software on the Windows OS . . . . . . . . . 132
Checking the Installation on the Windows OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Uninstalling Storage Management Software on the Windows OS . . . . . . . . . 136
Upgrade Instructions for Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) with the
VMware OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
System Requirements for VMware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Installing ALUA Support for VMware Versions ESX4.1U2, ESXi5.0, and Prior
Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Installing ALUA Support for VMware Versions ESX4.1U3, ESXi5.0U1, and
Subsequent Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Boot Device Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Boot Device Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Installing the Boot Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Storage Array and Host Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
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