Managing virtual system instances

When you deploy a virtual system pattern into the cloud, the resulting virtual system instance is a working IBM® MQ environment. The virtual system instance contains running virtual machines that are created from software components in the pattern.

You can manage your virtual system by running various virtual system instance management tasks on the virtual system itself.

You can update a deployed pattern instance, that is, the scripts that manage the instance lifecycle. You can also apply fix packs or interim fixes. There are a number of other administration and troubleshooting operations that you can perform from the IBM MQ software component.