Migrating from Express Edition to Standard Edition

Starting with release 4.2.3, IBM Spectrum Scale™ Express Edition is no longer available. Use this information for migrating from IBM Spectrum Scale Express Edition 4.2.2.x or earlier to IBM Spectrum Scale Standard Edition 4.2.3.x.

Before you begin, extract the IBM Spectrum Scale software as described in the Extracting the IBM Spectrum Scale software on Linux nodes topic. For information about the location of extracted installation images, see Location of extracted packages.

Use one of the following sets of steps depending on the operating system and the IBM Spectrum Scale version.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SLES

To migrate from 4.1.1.x or 4.2.0.x or 4.2.1.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SLES, update the existing RPMs and install new RPMs by issuing this command.
```
rpm -Uvh gpfs*rpm
```
To migrate from 4.2.2.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SLES, use these steps.
1. Uninstall the Express Edition license RPM by issuing the following command.
```
rpm -e gpfs.license.exp*.rpm
```
2. Update the existing RPMs and install new RPMs by issuing the following command.
```
rpm -Uvh gpfs*rpm
```

Debian and Ubuntu

To migrate from 4.1.1.x or 4.2.0.x or 4.2.1.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition on Debian and Ubuntu, update the existing packages and install new packages by issuing the following command.
```
dpkg -i gpfs*deb
```
To migrate from 4.2.2.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition on Debian and Ubuntu, use these steps.
1. Uninstall the Express Edition license package by issuing the following command.
```
dpkg -r gpfs.license.exp*deb
```
2. Update the existing packages and install new packages by issuing the following command.
```
dpkg -i gpfs*deb
```

AIX®

Depending on whether you want to be able to revert to the previous version without reinstalling or uninstalling or not, do one of the following sets of steps.
- If you want to be able to revert to previous version without reinstalling or uninstalling, do one of following sets of steps:
  - To migrate from 4.2.0.x or 4.2.1.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition on AIX, use these steps.
    1. Update existing packages to 4.2.3 level using the PTF images on FixCentral.
    2. Install additional packages from CD images.
  - To migrate from 4.2.2.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition on AIX, use these steps.
    1. Update existing packages to 4.2.3 level using the PTF images on FixCentral.
    2. Install additional packages from CD images.
    3. After a successful update, uninstall the gpfs.license.exp package.
  To revert to the previous version, do the following steps:
  1. Uninstall all additional packages installed from CD images.
  2. Reject the PTF images.
  3. If you are reverting to 4.2.2.x and you had uninstalled the gpfs.license.exp package for migrating to Standard Edition, install the gpfs.license.exp package.
- If you can reinstall or uninstall to revert to the previous version, do one of the following sets of steps:
  - To migrate from 4.2.0.x or 4.2.1.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition on AIX, install 4.2.3 packages from CD images.
  - To migrate from 4.2.2.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition on AIX, use these steps.
    1. Install 4.2.3 packages from CD images.
    2. After a successful update, uninstall the gpfs.license.exp package.

Windows

To migrate from 4.2.2.x or earlier Express Edition to Standard Edition 4.2.3 on Windows, use these steps.
1. Uninstall the current IBM Spectrum Scale packages (For example, gpfs.base-4.x.x.0-Windows.msi, gpfs.ext-4.x.x.0-Windows.msi, gpfs.gskit-8.0.x.x.msi, and gpfs.x.license.msi).
2. Reboot the system.
3. Install gpfs.ext-4.x.x.-Windows-license.msi, gpfs.ext-4.x.x.0-Windows.msi, and gpfs.gskit-8.0.x.x.msi packages.