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Preparing for Installation

This section describes what you need to know and do before you install the product.

This section contains the following topics:

Hardware Requirements

Software Requirements

Resource Requirements

Concurrent Releases

Hardware Requirements

This product requires a level of the z/VM licensed program which is currently supported by IBM. IBM specifies the hardware level of each computer system supported by each level of VM, and only those hardware levels are supported for running this product.

Software Requirements

The following software is required for installing this product:

Resource Requirements

All user ID characteristics, directory entry definitions, and disk space resources are defined in a PLANINFO report created by VMSES/E during the installation process, as described below. You must be prepared to allocate these resources during the installation procedure.

Concurrent Releases

You can install this release of CA VM:Director and continue to use a deployed instance of an older release for your production environment. If you plan to continue to run a previous release, consider the following points:

Certain public files for this product, such as the product command MODULE, may only operate with a specific version of the product server. Take care to prevent product public files from one level from overlaying the same files from an earlier level of the product. You should keep such public files on different public disks or directories.