Installing Advanced Allocation Management in a test environment

Fully testing Advanced Allocation Management in a test environment before you install it in your production environment helps ensure that the migration works as expected and that the product is configured according to your needs without impacting your current production data.

Before you begin

  1. Review all installation and migration documentation, including the prerequisites.
  2. Collect existing product data from the production environment.
  3. Determine the test system on which to install Advanced Allocation Management.

About this task

If Advanced Allocation Management is replacing a similar product, perform the migration process in a test environment before you perform the migration process in your production environment. After you successfully perform the migration process in the test environment, you can begin the process of migrating from your previous product to Advanced Allocation Management in your production environment.

Complete these steps to install Advanced Allocation Management in a test environment:

Procedure

  1. Install Advanced Allocation Management on the test system using the supplied sample rule definitions (RULEDEFS), volume group definitions (VGRPDEFs), and user-defined variable (VARDEFS) members that are generated during the installation process.
  2. Install the required and recommended Advanced Allocation Management maintenance on the test system.
  3. Start Advanced Allocation Management. For more information, see Starting the started task.
  4. Run the installation verification program (IVP) job that is supplied in the sample library data set. For more information, see Verifying the installation.