[Info-vax] Upgrade to 8.4

[issinoho]

On Monday, 14 October 2013 11:55:38 UTC+1, issinoho  wrote:
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> I am planning the upgrade of 2 production clustered Integrity servers from 8.3 to 8.4 and would like to run a few things by you for any comments you may wish to offer.
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> The servers boot from their own local copies of VMS and use a SAN disk as a quorum disk.
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> SYLOGICALS has been modified so that the cluster logical names point to an area on the SAN disk, thereby unifying UAF, etc.
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> From reading the upgrade notes it would seem that this is an area of risk and recommends that I copy the files to their original locations before attempting the upgrade. Can anyone confirm if this is indeed a requirement? Also, do I need to alter SYLOGICALS to reflect this change? Presumably following the upgrade, I would then copy the 'updated' versions of the files back to the SAN drive?
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> Order of upgrade. What is recommended here? Power both down, upgrade both then boot both? Or, power down one, upgrade and reboot then repeat for the second server?
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> Any other gotchas to be aware of?
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> Any and all thoughts and experiences are welcome. Thanks in advance.

Thanks to all for your helpful responses.