

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vxvm

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vxob The vxob and vxvm registry keys are located under: Confirm that the old "vxob" service (Veritas Enterprise Administrator Service) and "vxvm" service (Veritas Storage Agent) registry entries have been removed, this may manifest itself as a Windows System event error that the serivce failed to start, then the installation is not complete and a repair installation will need to be done.Correct the VMPATH environment variable to point to the new location, by default this will be changing from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Veritas\Veritas Volume Manager 5.1\" to "C:\Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Volume Manager\".Remove the 32 bit components of SFW 6.0 from the path, for example C:\Program Files (x86)\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\bin.Some environment information after reboot may also have to be corrected: If SFW 6.0 has already been installed as part of an upgrade, then the path will have to be manually fixed. This may occur during an upgrade when the SFW 6.0 portions are added, before the clean up of older path information that is redundant is removed. If the PATH variable during the installation exceeds 1023 characters, then the above message may be seen.

In many environments, the PATH variable is limited to 1023 characters. VPITrace log shows: VPI DBG_6 V-16-12-0 VPIHelper.cpp:helperUpdateProgressStatus:2612] Status is: Update Path Variable: Operation failed., Operation Status: Cause The "Update Path Variable: Operation failed" in VPITrace. If the server is rebooted before the installation is complete, the installation will be incomplete and a repair installation will have to be performed.

If the installation is allowed to complete, although difficult or impossible to track in the Veritas Installer window, you can refer to the installation log directories, or the Windows event viewer for MSInstaller messages as the SFW packages are installed. However it may be apparent that the installation is completing in the background. When installing or upgrading Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW), including SFW High Availability (SFW HA), the installation wizard will fail with the message "Update Path Variable: Operation failed" at 10%.
