Installation overview

Installing as a virtual appliance

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is installed on a VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual appliance. The virtual appliance contains the application and catalogs, which manage data protection. Maintenance tasks are completed in vSphere Client or Hyper-V Manager, by using the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus command line, or in the web-based administrative console.

For more information about installing IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as as a virtual appliance, see Overview of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance deployment.

Installation prerequisites