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Provisioning resources

You can use Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator to provision your managed resources, such as deploying updates to Lenovo XClarity Administrator resource managers and managed servers and configuring managed servers.

  • Provisioning server configurations
    Server-configuration patterns are used to quickly configure multiple servers from a single set of defined configuration settings. Each pattern defines the configuration characteristics for a specific type of server. You can create a server pattern by learning the settings from an existing server.
  • Provisioning operating systems
    You can use Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator to manage the OS-images repository and deploy operating-system images.
  • Provisioning updates to managed resources
    You can use Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator to maintain current software levels on Lenovo XClarity Administrator resource managers and managed servers. You can use the updates catalog to know what software levels are available, use update-compliance policies to identify which resources need to be updated based on custom criteria, and then deploy the desired updates to those resources.