Operations Overview
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a high-performance data protection and recovery solution for virtual server environments. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus ensures that an organization’s virtual machines and their contents are protected quickly, completely, and safely.
Resources that IBM Spectrum Protect Plus needs to recognize are registered in the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus user interface with a one-time operation when defining a backup job. Items that are registered include:
- The hypervisor(s) that contain the components to be backed up. VMware vCenters and Microsoft Hyper-V servers are both supported hypervisors.
- The vSnap Storage Appliance(s) that serve as the primary target for the backup.
- The IBM Spectrum Protect server, which serves as the secondary target for the backup.
Related features of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus include auto-discovery and the product’s catalog. Auto-discovery recognizes when new virtual machines on a registered hypervisor are added to the environment. The feature ensures that all data in your virtualized environment is protected.
The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog, which inventories and indexes all virtual machine snapshots, enables an administrator to easily see what is and is not protected. When the need to restore arises, this global catalog allows the administrator to quickly search and identify what objects they want to restore, and from which restore point.
The catalog is stored and maintained on the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus appliance. Periodic maintenance jobs are run to cleanse the catalog of metadata for snapshots that have passed the retention period or are otherwise expired.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.2
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