IBM CSM to IBM Systems Director Transformation Guide

Chapter 3. Transformation scenarios 41

– IBM Systems Director VMControl Standard Edition

For information about VMControl, refer to:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r2x/topic/com.ibm.direct

or.vim.helps.doc/fsd0_vim_pdf.pdf

3.1.2 What we cover

The following topics are covered:

򐂰 Transformation of nodes (endpoints) to IBM Systems Director

򐂰 Transformation of hardware devices (HMC and Virtual I/O Servers in IBM Systems

Director)

򐂰 CSM and IBM Systems Director common functionality testing

򐂰 CSM decommissioning

򐂰 Migration of AIX 5.3 to AIX 7.1 using IBM Systems Director

3.1.3 Prerequisites

For IBM Systems Director-related prerequisites, refer to 2.4, “Product prerequisites” on

page 12.

3.1.4 Recommendations

We recommend switching from the default Apache Derby database used in IBM Systems

Director to IBM DB2. For more details about databases used and how to change them, refer

to 2.9, “Database” on page 29.

For even more information, refer to Chapter 9 of IBM Systems Director for AIX Installation

Guide:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r2x/topic/com.ibm.director.

main.helps.doc/fqp0_bk_install_gde_aix.pdf

3.1.5 Considerations and time estimates

Depending on the customer environment, there may be requirements to migrate AIX, CSM

and/or IBM Systems Director to the latest level prior to or during the transformation. Any

form of software upgrade has an associated risk, and therefore upgrading software during

this process adds risk to the transformation itself.

The transformation steps need to be performed and completed in a given order, as can be

seen in Figure 3-1 on page 42. More accurate time estimates will be based on your own

environment size and available resources.

Note: AIX 7.1 is not supported by CSM, but is supported by IBM Systems Director

V6.2.1.