IBM Spectrum Protect Cloud Blueprints

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Overview

The IBM Spectrum Protect Cloud Blueprints provide detailed guidance about implementing an IBM Spectrum Protect server with cloud computing resources that store data in object storage. You can use the configurations as starting points to deploy a large, medium, small, or extra-small system, as defined in the IBM Spectrum Protect Blueprints. With the goal of achieving a target daily ingestion rate (corresponding to a large, medium, small, or extra-small deployment), configuration possibilities are offered so that you can get a sense of the relative CPU, memory, disk, and network capabilities that are needed to satisfy requirements. For each platform, step-by-step commands for block storage setup and instance configuration are provided.

IBM Spectrum Protect Cloud Blueprints are available for the following service providers:

IBM Cloud
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft® Azure
Google Cloud Platform

Audience

IBM Systems technical sellers, IBM Business Partners, and customers

Links to other Blueprints

IBM Spectrum Protect Blueprints

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Blueprints

What's new in the V2.1 release for Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Added a section describing considerations for deployment within AWS GovCloud (US) as a supported configuration

What's new in the V2.0 release

Introduced a Google Cloud Platform version for the first time
Added architectures for IBM Cloud Virtual Instances for VPC alongside bare metal server options
Revised and updated guidance for instance and block disk configurations for all other platforms
Added sections related to IBM Spectrum Protect security concepts and optimizing recovery for all platforms
Added more detailed disk setup instructions for all platforms

What's new in the V1.4 release for Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Added an overview of IBM Spectrum Protect security concepts
Added sections describing AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail monitoring with IBM Spectrum Protect
Added sections describing how to encrypt components with AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Provided details on how reduce costs within AWS

What's new in the V1.3 release

Updated architectures to include database backup to object storage
Revised cloud computing guidelines for IBM Cloud bare metal servers to reflect the updated offerings available from IBM Cloud
Introduced a "Quick Start Guide" for Amazon Web Services (AWS), detailing needed AWS components
Introduced CloudFormation templates for convenient deployment into AWS
Revised cloud computing guidelines for Microsoft Azure to feature "version 4" instances

What's new in the V1.2 release

Introduced an extra-small cloud Blueprint for IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure
Revised cloud computing guidelines for Amazon Web Services
Revised cloud computing guidelines for Microsoft Azure
Provided a more in-depth discussion of "direct-to-cloud" versus "disk-to-cloud tiering" architectures and the reasons to choose either method
Updated disk and object storage benchmarking sections and attached benchmark tooling

What's new in the V1.1 release

A new Blueprint for IBM Spectrum Protect deployments in the IBM Cloud

What's new in the V1.0 release

Initial release covering deployment guidelines with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure

Blueprint documentation

V2.1 release (AWS only)

IBM Spectrum Protect Cloud Blueprint for Amazon Web Services V2.1.pdf

V2.0 release

V1.4 release (AWS only)

IBM Spectrum Protect In-the-Cloud Deployment Guidelines with Amazon Web Services V1.4.pdf

V1.3 release

V1.2 release

Tools

When you size an IBM Spectrum Protect solution that uses cloud storage, it is important to determine the data ingestion throughput capability of the cloud-container storage pool. The following two characteristics factor into this capability:

The input/output operations per second (IOPS) of the cloud-container storage pool accelerator disk cache
The throughput performance of the object storage system and network that support the cloud-container storage pool

Both of these characteristics must meet performance thresholds to optimize the data ingestion capability of the cloud-container storage pool.

Tools are available to help you with sizing and benchmarking so that you can configure an optimal IBM Spectrum Protect solution. The following document explains how to use the tools provided within the "Cloud benchmarking tools" package to benchmark your environment:

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