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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Simplified data resilience for VMs,
databases, applications, file systems,
Highlights SaaS workloads, and containers

• Unified data resilience for Organizations struggle with the cost and complexity of
physical, virtual, and protecting data as they embrace digital transformation,
containerized workloads manage massive data growth, and tackle the requirements of
always-on services. Moreover, virtual machines (VMs) are
• Efficient protection for
ubiquitous and containerized workloads are becoming more
Microsoft 365, Exchange
prevalent.
Online and OneDrive
• Streamline operations with Modern data resilience solutions explicitly designed to
an agentless architecture operate both on-premises and in the cloud have become
• Simplify management with essential. Data protection requirements have evolved from
SLA-based policies and a merely data backup and recovery solutions to a new data
centralized dashboard resilience approach that provides continuous access to data
• Enable secure self-service no matter where it resides while protecting critical
with RBAC information in the event of a system failure, human error,
• Provide automated and malicious behavior, or a natural disaster.
efficient data reuse
• Protect databases hosted
on-premises and in multiple
different clouds
• Support cyber resilience
with the ability to air-gap
data on tape
• Utilize a proactive catalog
and global search to quickly
find data
• Automate and simplify
backup administrative tasks
with REST APIs

The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus drilldown dashboard with built-in

alerting provides timely status information.
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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data resilience solution that provides data protection, recovery,
replication, and reuse for VMs, databases, applications, file systems, SaaS workloads,
containers, and cloud environments. The solution is easy to deploy as a virtual appliance or as a
container application and the agentless architecture is easy to implement and maintain. SLA-
based policies automate data protection processes, including operational backups, data
replication and data retention. Role-based access control (RBAC) and application integration
enable secure self-service to improve the speed and efficacy of analytics, development, and
testing for those who need fast access to the right data.

Cost-effective data retention and disaster recovery are achieved via data copy and archival to
on-premises and cloud-based object storage, as well as to IBM Spectrum Protect managed
storage including data archival to physical and virtual tape. Cyber resilience is also supported
with object storage that utilizes write-once-read-many (WORM) technology and the ability to air-
gap data to tape via integration with IBM Spectrum Protect.

Management simplicity

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus provides automated, centrally scheduled, policy-managed backup
capabilities for multiple workloads, including VMs, databases, applications, file systems, SaaS
workloads, and containers.

To streamline ongoing operations, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus has a drill-down dashboard with
built-in alerting that provides status information, such as a quick view of storage utilization and
data protection status. Alerts are tied to the event log, so administrators are notified before
potential issues become a real problem, such as when storage threshold limits are approaching.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus RBAC enables secure, self-service and data reuse, and REST APIs
help data owners and administrators easily streamline the monitoring, configuration, and
automation of data protection processes by simplifying integration with third party applications
and tools. This powerful combination improves DR testing, application development, reporting,
and analytics.
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Simplified management with SLA-based policies and a centralized dashboard.

Comprehensive support for cloud-based workloads

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a supported solution in the IBM Cloud, AWS and Microsoft Azure
Marketplaces. The solution can be fully deployed within IBM Cloud, AWS, or Microsoft Azure for
an “all in the cloud” data protection experience. In hybrid environments, customers can protect
IBM Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure workloads with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Server
deployed on-premises.

Workloads supported on IBM Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure include Microsoft Exchange,
Windows file system and databases, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM Db2, and
MongoDB. On AWS and IBM Cloud, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus also supports workloads running
in VMware, and EC2 instances are supported on AWS.

Advanced container data protection

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus provides data resilience for containers running in Red Hat OpenShift
and Kubernetes environments. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus’ native integration with Kubernetes
and Red Hat OpenShift increases developer productivity and provides the ability to protect both
persistent volumes (PVs) and Kubernetes resource meta-data (etcd) to ensure complete
recovery. Its support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage Ceph RDB and CephFS CSI
snapshots, combined with support for IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI, IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM
Spectrum Virtualize CSI snapshots provides both container-ready and container-native storage
support.
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This solution provides deep integration with Kubernetes API's such as Container Storage
Interface (CSI) snapshots as well as Red Hat OpenShift API Data Protection (OADP),
providing comprehensive data protection for containerized environments. Users can apply SLA
policies to clusters, namespace, and labels. Users can recover to the same or a different
location. This capability supports disaster recovery and data reuse for development, testing, and
analytics.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus provides IBM Spectrum Protect Plus delivers native data protection for containers
running in Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.

Service Level Agreement (SLA) management includes policy definition and assignment from the
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus user interface. Developers can use these policies to schedule
persistent volume snapshots, replication to secondary sites, and to copy data to object storage
or to IBM Spectrum Protect for secure long-term data retention.

In addition, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus integrates with IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud
Management (MCM) to provide seamless data resilience and application management.

Rapid data recovery

The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus proactive data resilience catalog and global
search enables administrators to ensure they are protecting all the right data and quickly
identify the data they want to recover across multiple VM hosts, file systems, hypervisors,
applications and containers.
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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus enables tremendous storage efficiency via snapshots, incremental
forever technology, compression, and deduplication - and stores data in its native format. As a
result, administrators can rapidly restore data and data owners have quick access to data
copies.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus provides application-consistent backup, rapid recovery, and efficient
data reuse for application workloads, including Microsoft 365, and databases such as Microsoft
SQL, Oracle, Db2, and MongoDB running on physical systems, virtual machines, and in IBM
Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure. Users can also back up, recover, and
reuse, data in Windows file systems, including file-level backup and recovery of physical and
virtualized file servers.

In addition, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus supports Microsoft Exchange on-premises, including
individual mailbox item-level restore. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus also provides backup and
recovery for Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft OneDrive and helps ensure compliance by
protecting and retaining Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes, calendars, contacts, and shared folders
as part of an overall data protection solution.1

Developers building container-based applications can use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus’ native
integration with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes to easily back up, replicate, retain, and
recover persistent container volumes using CSI snapshots and predefined policies. IBM
Spectrum Protect Plus’ ability to protect both persistent volumes and Kubernetes resource
metadata ensures complete recovery.

Backup and restore for label protection

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An example of the importance of protecting Kubernetes resource metadata, is the ability to back
up, recover and reuse logical persistent volume groupings using Kubernetes labels. This
capability is key because applications built using containers are logical groups of multiple
components. For example, an app may have Mongo DB containers, a web service container, and
middleware containers. If these application components share a common label, users can
leverage the Kubernetes label feature to select the logical application grouping instead of
picking individual persistent volumes that make up the application. Developers can also back up
and recover logical persistent volumes associated with Kubernetes namespaces.

Cost-effective data retention

Cost-effective data retention is achieved via data copy and archival to both on-premises and
cloud-based object storage, as well as IBM Spectrum Protect for data archival to physical tape.

Data copy options supported include cloud services (IBM Cloud Object Storage service, AWS,
and Microsoft Azure), on-premises object storage (IBM Cloud Object Storage) and IBM
Spectrum Protect. Administrators can also recover data from replicated backup repositories on
AWS.

Administrators can achieve cost-effective data archival through integration with Amazon S3
Glacier, Azure Archive, and IBM Cloud Object Storage Archive. Cyber resilience support is
enabled by locking down data on object storage using immutable WORM storage and air-
gapping data to tape via integration with IBM Spectrum Protect.

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Support for Microsoft Office 365 applications requires a subscription license that is measured per protected Microsoft Office 365 user.
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Why IBM? For more information

IBM offers a vast portfolio of hardware, To learn more about IBM Spectrum Protect
software and services, including industry- Plus, please contact your IBM representative
leading data storage products and solutions. or IBM Business Partner, or visit:
Innovative technology, open standards, ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/ibm-spectrum-
excellent performance, and a broad portfolio protect-plus
of proven storage offerings—all provided by
IBM, a recognized industry leader—are just a
few of the reasons to consider IBM Spectrum
Protect Plus.
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