Installing the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator in an online environment
Install the IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus operator so that all IBM Spectrum Protect Plus components can be deployed and managed by the operator on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform.
Before you begin
The information that is provided applies to installing the operator in an online environment. If the Red Hat OpenShift cluster operates is an air-gapped environment, follow the instructions in Installing the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator in an air-gapped environment.
Ensure that you complete the prerequisite steps in Preparing to install the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator from the IBM Entitled Registry.
The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator is namespace-scoped so that it can be installed in any namespace in a Red Hat OpenShift cluster. However, the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus instance must be deployed in the namespace in which the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator is installed.
For the IBM Cloud Pak® for Multicloud Management environment, ensure that you complete the steps on the same hub cluster on which IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management is installed.
Procedure
- Log on to the Red Hat OpenShift web console as the cluster administrator.
- In the navigation panel, click .
- On the OperatorHub page, ensure that all namespaces is selected in the Project list.
- In the search field under All items, enter
spp.
- Click the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus card and click Install.
- On the Create Operator Subscription page, click A
specific namespace on the cluster and specify the project that you created for IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus.
- In the Approval Strategy section, select whether to update the operator automatically or manually.
- Click Subscribe. The Installed Operators page is displayed.
- Wait a few moments for the operator to install. When the operator is successfully installed, the InstallSucceeded status is displayed.
Results
- In the navigation panel, click .
- On the Pods page, verify that the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator container is running. The container name begins with the prefix spp-operator.
- In the navigation panel, click .
- From the list of installed operators, click IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and review information about the installed operator.