USB drive installations

You can install IBM QRadar software with a USB drive.

USB drive installations are full product installations. You cannot use a USB drive to upgrade or apply product patches. For information about applying update packages, see the update package Release Notes.

Supported versions

The following appliances or operating systems can be used to create a bootable USB drive:
  • A Linux® system that is installed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux V7.9
  • Apple Mac OS X
  • Microsoft Windows

Installation overview

Follow this procedure to install QRadar software from a USB drive:
  1. Create the bootable USB drive.
  2. Install the software for your QRadar appliance.
  3. Install any product maintenance releases or update packages.

    See the Release Notes for installation instructions for update packages and maintenance releases.