Upgrading Management Server in high availability and disaster recovery environment

Last published : Jun 19, 2026
Before you upgrade Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager in the high availability and disaster recovery environment, keep in mind the following:
  • The SFM_Services, the SFM_SStore, and the SFM_Xprtld service groups should be online on one of the nodes of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager in the high availability environment, which is the active node.
    Note: You must upgrade the active node before you upgrade the slave nodes.
To upgrade Management Server in high availability environment to 7.3.1
  1. Follow the steps to upgrade Management Server on the active node, and then, on the slave nodes.
After the upgrade on the active node, the SFM_Services service group, and the SFM_SStore service group, are in a frozen state.
You must upgrade all the slave nodes before you unfreeze the service groups on the active node to prevent issues during failover.
  1. To unfreeze the service groups on the active node, run the following command:
/opt/VRTSsfmcs/config/vcs/sfmha start
where, installdir is the installation directory.
  1. You must upgrade all the slave nodes before you unfreeze the service groups on the active node to prevent issues during failover.
  2. In the console, verify that the SFM_Services, the SFM_SStore, and the SFM_Xprtld service groups are online on the active node.
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