Installing IBM Spectrum Protect Plus on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

To install IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus on a Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster, you must prepare your environment, install the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator, and create an instance of the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server.

Before you begin

Ensure that Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is running on your cloud environment, and you have cluster administrator privileges for your Red Hat OpenShift cluster.

Ensure that you review the container requirements in Component requirements.

About this task

You can install the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server as a set of containers by using one of the following methods:

Table 1. Methods for installing IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a set of containers
Installation method Steps
By installing the product from an online environment You can install the product by pulling container images from an online registry, such as the IBM® Entitled Registry. Internet access is required to pull containers at deployment time.

You can also use this method to install IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in the IBM Cloud Pak® for Multicloud Management environment.

By installing the product in an air-gapped environment You can install the product by using a self-contained product package. Internet access is not required at deployment time.

You can also use this method to install IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management environment.

By installing the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator at the command line in the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management environment Install the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator for IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management at the command line in an online environment. Then, create an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus instance in the Red Hat OpenShift web console.