Overview of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance deployment

IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus can be installed as a virtual appliance. The virtual appliance contains the application and the inventory.

Maintenance tasks are completed in vSphere Client or Hyper-V Manager, by using the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus command line, or in a web-based management console.

Maintenance tasks are completed by a system administrator. A system administrator is usually a senior-level user who designed or implemented the vSphere and ESXi or Hyper-V infrastructure, or a user with an understanding of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, VMware or Hyper-V, and Linux command-line usage.

Infrastructure updates are managed by IBM update facilities. The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus user interface serves as the primary means for updating IBM Spectrum Protect Plus features and underlying infrastructure components, including the operating system and file system.