Installation overview
You can install IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus as a VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual appliance or as a set of Red Hat OpenShift containers.
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.
Installing as a set of containers
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus can be installed on any supported cloud computing system or virtual environment where an OpenShift cluster is installed. The installation process uses the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator, which deploys and manages all the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus components on Kubernetes.
For more information about installing IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as set of containers, see Overview of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus container deployment.