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What's new in version 3.6

Lenovo XClarity Administrator management software version 3.6 supports new hardware, software enhancements, and fixes.

Additional hardware support​

This version supports the following new hardware.

  • Servers and appliances

    • ThinkSystem SR650 V2 (7D15)

  • Switches

    • NVIDIA Mellanox SN2410 Ethernet Switch
    • NVIDIA Mellanox SN3700c Ethernet Switch
You can find a complete list of supported devices and options (such as I/O, DIMM, and storage adapters), minimum required firmware levels, and limitations considerations from the following Lenovo XClarity Support webpages.

Fixes​

Refer to the change history file (*.chg) that is provided in the update package for information about fixes.

Software enhancements​

This version supports the following enhancements to the management software.
FunctionDescription
Planning and installationYou can install XClarity Administrator on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 with Hyper-V installed and VMware ESXi 7.0 U3 (see Hardware and software prerequisites).

Some IP addresses that must be open on the firewall to download updates from IBM were changed.

  • download3.boulder.ibm.com - 170.225.126.24
  • download4.boulder.ibm.com - 170.225.126.43
  • delivery04-bld.dhe.ibm.com - 170.225.126.45
  • delivery04-mul.dhe.ibm.com - 170.225.126.46
  • delivery04.dhe.ibm.com - 170.225.126.44
Device managementYou can manage NVIDIA Mellanox switches (see Managing switches)..

You can securely erase data on all disk drives in specific managed servers (see Securely erasing drive data).

You can view the capacity of drives in ThinkSystem DM storage devices (see Viewing the details of a storage device).

You can view the firmware levels for IBM Tape Drives (see Viewing the details of a storage device).

You can view the size of each drive in a specific storage device (see Viewing the details of a storage device).

You can view the available capacity of each storage device from the Storage page (see Viewing the status of storage devices).

You can view capacity information about a specific storage device from the storage summary page (see Viewing the status of storage devices).

Server configurationYou can manually change the status of “Not Compliant” devices to “Compliant” without redeploying the profile (see Configuration considerations).
Firmware updatesYou can apply firmware updates to IBM TS4300 Tape Library devices (see Updating firmware on managed devices).

You can assign firmware-compliance policies to all or only selected devices that are non-compliant in addition to devices with no policy assignment (see Creating and assigning firmware-compliance policies).

Operating system deploymentVLAN tagging is not supported for Linux operating-system deployments; however, you can force deploying under VLAN mode by setting the VLAN ID to 1 for all Linux deployments (see Configuring network settings for managed servers).

You can import multiple customized ESXi images with the same major/minor version and build number (see Importing operating-system images).

PowerShell toolkitFor information about new and updated PowerShell cmdlets, see Summary of changes in the PowerShell toolkit.
PyLXCA toolkitFor information about new and updated PyLXCA commands, see Summary of changes in the Python (PyLXCA) toolkit.
REST APIFor information about new and updated REST APIs, see Summary of changes in the REST API.