Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter
Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter is an extension to LXCI for VMware vCenter and provides system administrators with enhanced management capabilities for System x servers, BladeCenter servers and Flex System servers. Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter expands the management capabilities of VMware vCenter by integrating Lenovo hardware management functionality.
Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter provides the following features.
- Dashboard
- The Dashboard provides:
Overview of a selected host and cluster status, including a system information summary and system health messages.
Summary information, including overall resource usage, host health messages, and connection status.
BMC information for each host and allows users to launch the BMC console directly.
- Firmware Updates
- The Firmware Updates function acquires and applies Lenovo UpdateXpress System Packs (UXSPs) and individual updates to an ESXi system. The Rolling System Update function provides nondisruptive system updates with zero downtime, automates the update process of the hosts in a cluster environment without any workload interruption, and supports updating multiple hosts concurrently to save time.
- Power Metric
- Power Metric monitors and provides a summary of power usage, thermal history, and fan speed, in addition to a trend chart for the managed host. Users can also set the power capping for a power-capping capable host to limit the server power usage.
- Advanced Settings Utility
- ASU manages the current system settings on the host, including the BMC, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), and boot order settings.
- Predictive failure management
- Predictive failure management monitors the server hardware status and receives predictive failure alerts. Users can set a management policy for a server based on a predictive failure alert to either automatically evacuate virtual machines in response to predictive failure alerts to protect users’ workloads or notify users. Predictive failure management is manually enabled or disabled on a host.
- Rolling System Update function
- The Rolling System Update (RSU) function updates the firmware in a single batch while the system continues running without interruption to application services on a server host. The RSU function provides an approach of non-disruptive firmware updates. It enables full management of firmware by leveraging dynamic virtual machine movement and automatic host restart within a defined VMware cluster without any workload interruption.
- Rolling System Reboot
- The Rolling System Reboot (RSR) function provides an automatic rolling restart mechanism by leveraging dynamic virtual machine movement and automatic host restart within a defined VMware cluster without any workload interruption.
- Hardware topology view for ThinkAgile VX appliance servers
- The hardware topology function provides an embedded graphical view for ThinkAgile VX appliance servers. It displays server layout, detailed hardware inventory, and health information, and provides guided wizard to manage the vSAN disks.
- Lenovo XClarity Administrator Integration
- Lenovo XClarity Integrator integrates with Lenovo XClarity Administrator to provide a convenient method of automating Lenovo server discovery, visualizing inventory map view of managed servers, configuring servers with configuration patterns, and orchestrating rolling firmware policy deployment.
- vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) integration
- Lenovo XClarity Integrator integrates with vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM), which is introduced in vSphere 7.0, to provide a convenient method of orchestrating firmware updates through a defined cluster-wide image.