Upgrading NetWare NSS Volumes
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Nov 2001
Q.
I have a NetWare 5.x shop with more than 20 servers. I plan to upgrade to NetWare 6. Do I need to worry about my NSS volumes, or will the NetWare 6 upgrade utility take care of any conversions?
Veronica Volumes in Versailles
A.
Dear Veronica: When you upgrade an existing NetWare 5.x server to NetWare 6, you should upgrade your existing NSS 2.xx and legacy volumes to NSS 3.0. The upgrade procedure will not do this automatically, but there are easy ways to do this task manually.
For example, if you have the following:
NetWare 5.1 with Support Pack 2a installed and a 6 GB Hard Disk, with volume SYS and DATA as legacy volumes and V1 and V2 as NSS 2.xx volumes.
After upgrading to NetWare 6, you have:
NetWare 6 SYS and DATA remain legacy volumes and are mountable, but the V1 and V2 are not as yet mountable.
Type the following command at the server console prompt:
NSS /ZLSSVolumeUpgrade=V1
This creates a pool V1 and a logical volume V1. You can create additional logical volumes in pool V1. Now V1 is a standard NSS 3.0 pool and with same name you get a normal NSS 3.0 volume.
You may want to upgrade eDirectory to the correct NDS information as well. For this action, use the ConsoleOne utility. In the NSSPOOLS menu, right click on server name and select Properties, then in the Media tab, click on Upgrade NDS. To upgrade legacy volume data, use the VCU.NLM. For help, type vcu /? at the server console prompt.
Note: When upgrading the SYS volume, make sure that your Virtual Memory swap file is not on SYS--put the swap file on another volume. Then rename SYS during the upgrade.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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