Installing the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator in an online environment

Install the IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus operator so that all IBM Spectrum Protect Plus components can be deployed and managed by the operator on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform.

Before you begin

The information that is provided applies to installing the operator in an online environment. If the OpenShift cluster operates is an airgap environment, follow the instructions in Installing the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator in an airgap environment.

Ensure that you complete the prerequisite steps in Preparing to install the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator from the IBM Entitled Registry.

The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator is namespace-scoped so that it can be installed in any namespace in an OpenShift cluster. However, the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus instance must be deployed in the 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

  1. Log on to the OpenShift web console as the cluster administrator.
  2. In the navigation pane, click Operators > OperatorHub.
  3. On the OperatorHub page, ensure that all namespaces is selected in the Project list.
  4. In the search field under All items, enter spp.
    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator
  5. Click the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus card and click Install.
  6. On the Create Operator Subscription page, click A specific namespace on the cluster and specify the project that you created for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.
    Create operator subscription
  7. In the Approval Strategy section, select whether to update the operator automatically or manually.
  8. Click Subscribe.
    The Installed Operators page is displayed.
  9. Wait a few moments for the operator to install. When the operator is successfully installed, the InstallSucceeded status is displayed.

Results

The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator is installed as a container. You can verify that the operator is installed by completing the following steps:
  1. In the navigation pane, click Workloads > Pods.
  2. On the Pods page, verify that the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator container is running. The container name begins with the prefix spp-operator.
  3. In the navigation pane, click Operators > Installed Operators.
  4. From the list of installed operators, click IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and review information about the installed operator.

What to do next

Create an instance of the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server by using the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator that you installed. For instructions, see Creating an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus instance.