Use Case: How do I identify and plan for changes to my production environment without changing my live production environment?

In some circumstances, you might want to identify and plan for production changes before comitting to changing your live production environment.

You might want to identify and plan for production changes without immediately applying them or scheduling downtime. By creating a duplicate environment you can review changes before applying them and modifying your live production environment. The duplicate environment is also useful for troubleshooting any issues outside of your live environment.

Procedure

1. Create a duplicate environment by migrating your existing vRA 7.6 production environment to a new vRA 7.6 dev environment.
2. Disable the agents on the dev environment.
3. Perform a VMware Aria Automation 8 migration assessment on the 7.6 dev environment using the Migration Assistant.
4. Review the assessment results to identify what changes are needed on your 7.6 production environment.
5. Apply the changes to your vRA 7.6 production environment.
6. Migrate your production environment to VMware Aria Automation 8.