After the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus operator is
installed, create an instance of the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus
server from the installed operator page. The instance is required for running IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus in a container environment.
Before you begin
Ensure that you create the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus instance
in the same namespace in which the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus
operator is installed.
For the IBM Cloud Pak®
for Multicloud Management environment, ensure that you
complete the steps on the same hub cluster on which IBM Cloud Pak
for Multicloud Management is installed.
Procedure
- Log on to the OpenShift® web console as the cluster administrator.
- In the navigation pane, click
.
- On the Installed Operators page, ensure that the project that you
created for IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus is selected in the
Project list.
- Select the newly created IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus
operator.
- On the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus operator details
page, click Create Instance.
- On the Create IBMSPP page, click Edit
form.
- Update the configurations by completing the following fields:
Field name |
Description |
Name |
Specify a name for the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus
instance. |
Image Registry |
Specify the path for pulling images from the IBM®
Entitled Registry: cp.icr.io/cp/sppserver |
Image Pull Secret |
Select the image pull secret that you created for IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus. |
Hostname |
Specify a public hostname for the instance. The hostname must be in the following
format:instancename-spp.routerCanonicalHostname where
instancename is the name of the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus instance (as specified in the
Name field), and routerCanonicalHostname is the external
host name for the OpenShift router. This hostname is
also used to access the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus user
interface. |
Storage Class |
Select the storage class to that is used for volumes. The storage class is already
configured with the OpenShift environment. |
Version |
Select a version of IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus to
install. |
License |
Review and accept the license agreement. |
- Install the instance of IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus by
clicking Create.
The operator details page for the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus operator shows the progress of the
installation.
- Optional: To monitor the detailed progress of the installation, take the
following actions:
- In the navigation pane, click
.
- On the Pods page, ensure that the project that you created for
IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus is selected in the
Project list.
- Select the container for the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus operator. The container name begins with the
prefix
spp-operator
.
- On the pod details page for the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus operator, view the operator logs by clicking
. You can view
the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus components as they are being
installed.
- After the containers are installed, wait for the containers to reach the
Running state. For each container that is shown on the
Pods page, you can click the name of the container to show the detailed logs.
The virgo container takes approximately 5 - 10 minutes to be up and
running.
What to do next
You can verify that the
IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus instance was
created successfully by completing the following steps:
- In the navigation pane of the OpenShift web console, click .
- Click IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus operator from the list of
installed operators.
- On the Operator Details page, click the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus tab. The list of running instances is
displayed.
- Click the name of an instance to show its status.
- Scroll to the Conditions section of the page and review the status. The
instance is created successfully when the True message is displayed in
the Status column and the Successful message is
displayed in the Reason column.
To start using the
IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus server in a
container environment, complete the following steps:
- In the OpenShift web console, in the navigation
pane, click
.
- On the Routes Operators page, ensure that the project that you created for
IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus is selected in the
Project list.
- In the Location column, click the URL of the hostname that you configured
when you created the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus instance.
After you create an IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus instance, you
must create an IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus vSnap server for your
primary backup destination. The vSnap server is installed outside of your container environment. For
instructions, see Installing and managing vSnap servers.