1. Burn the Oracle VM Server ISO file to a bootable CD.

2. Start the Oracle VM Server installer by following the steps in Section 2.2, “Installing Oracle VM Server From a CD”.

3. If an existing Oracle VM Server installation is found on the computer, the System to Upgrade screen is displayed.

   

   Select Oracle VM Server 3.x (disk) to upgrade the existing installation.

   Select OK and press Enter.

4. The Upgrade Boot Loader Configuration screen is displayed.

   

   Select Update boot loader configuration to update the existing boot loader. Select Skip boot loader updating to make no changes to the boot loader. Select Create new boot loader configuration to create a new boot loader.

   Select OK and press Enter.

   If you selected Create new boot loader configuration, the Boot Loader Configuration screen is displayed.

   The Boot Loader Configuration screen is displayed.

   

   If you want to set a boot loader password to increase security of your machine, select Use a GRUB Password, enter a password in the Boot Loader Password field, and re-enter the password in the Confirm field.

   Warning

   Do not use boot loader passwords if Distributed Power Management (DPM) is used. A boot loader password has to be entered manually with every boot, which prevents DPM from starting a server successfully. For more information about DPM, see Server Pool Policies in the Oracle VM User's Guide

   Select OK and press Enter.

   The Boot Loader Configuration screen is displayed.

   

   Select Master Boot Record (MBR) or First sector of boot partition as the location to install the boot loader. If you want to change the drive order, select Change drive order and follow the prompts to change the drive order.

   Select OK and press Enter.

5. The Upgrade to begin screen is displayed.

   

   Select OK and press Enter. The installer installs and configures Oracle VM.

6. When all files are installed and configuration complete, the Complete screen is displayed.

   

   If you performed the upgrade from the CDROM drive, remove the Oracle VM CDROM.

   Select Reboot and press Enter. The computer reboots.

   The Oracle VM console is displayed.

To upgrade Oracle VM Server with multiple paths:

1. Revert the Oracle VM Server to use single path SAN boot by removing all disk paths, leaving only one path visible to the Oracle VM Server.

2. Update the Oracle VM Server grub.conf file to use the no multipath support initrd.

3. Add the boot disk wwid to /etc/blacklisted.wwids, for example:

   wwid "3600805f3000dd9c0000000006745005b"

4. Restart the Oracle VM Server. Make sure the Oracle VM Server boots and mounts over the single path SAN disk, for example, sdX 3.

5. Now the Oracle VM Server is configured to boot from a single path SAN, follow the steps in the next procedure to upgrade the Oracle VM Server and reconfigure multiple paths.

To upgrade Oracle VM Server with a single path:

1. Upgrade Oracle VM Server using a YUM repository. See Section 5.3.1, “Upgrading Oracle VM Server Using a Yum Repository” for information on upgrading using a YUM repository. Alternatively use a CD to perform the Oracle VM Server upgrade. See Section 5.3.2, “Upgrading Oracle VM Server Using the CD” for more information on upgrading using a CD.

2. Delete the /etc/multipath/bindings file if it exists.

3. Run mkinitrd to include multipath, for example:

   # mkinitrd --add-multipath -f /boot/initrd-2.6.39-200.0.13.el5uek_mp.img 2.6.39-200.0.13.el5uek

4. Edit the /etc/fstab file to make sure the entries refer to the /dev/mapper devices of your boot disk:

   #UUID=363ca8da-b927-4ace-9b24-d06edb0dba5c /          ext3    defaults       1 1
   #UUID=d6be5e20-5946-4ca9-aa88-2e7937461b03 /boot      ext3    defaults       1 2
   /dev/mapper/360060160d3102200dcd34d042424e111p2 /          ext3    defaults       1 1
   /dev/mapper/360060160d3102200dcd34d042424e111p1 /boot      ext3    defaults       1 2
   /dev/mapper/360060160d3102200dcd34d042424e111p3 swap  swap    defaults        0 0

   Note

   If you do not know the /dev/mapper device of your boot disk, save the WWID from the /etc/blacklisted.wwids file.

5. Remove the boot disk entry from the /etc/blacklisted.wwids file.

6. Edit the grub.conf file to boot the multipath initrd-xxxx_mp.img.

7. Add additional disk paths.

8. Restart the Oracle VM Server. The upgrade is completed.