Nutanix Prism - Lenovo ThinkAgile HX2320-E Product Manual

Lenovo XClarity Administrator is available from Lenovo at no charge, and it offers the following features:
Auto-discovery and monitoring of HX Series appliances
Firmware updates and compliance enforcement
External alerts and notifications via SNMP traps, syslog remote logging, and e-mail
Secure connections to managed endpoints
NIST 800-131A or FIPS 140-2 compliant cryptographic standards between the management
solution and managed endpoints
Integration into existing higher level management systems such as cloud automation and
orchestration tools through REST APIs, providing extensive external visibility and control over
hardware resources
An intuitive, easy-to-use GUI
Scripting support with Windows PowerShell, providing command-line visibility and control over
hardware resources
In addition, Lenovo XClarity Administrator offers two software plug-in modules (Lenovo XClarity
Integrators) at no charge:
Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Microsoft System Center
Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter
Lenovo XClarity Integrators allow administrators to manage physical infrastructure from leading external
virtualization management software tools from Microsoft and VMware.
Lenovo XClarity Integrators offer the following additional features:
Ability to discover, manage, and monitor Lenovo server hardware from VMware vCenter or
Microsoft System Center
Deployment of firmware updates to HX Series appliances from the virtualization management tool
Non-disruptive server maintenance in clustered environments that reduces workload downtime by
dynamically migrating workloads from affected hosts during rolling server updates or reboots
Greater service level uptime and assurance in clustered environments during unplanned hardware
events by dynamically triggering workload migration from impacted hosts when impending
hardware failures are predicted

Nutanix Prism

Nutanix Prism gives administrators a simple and elegant way to manage virtual environments. Powered by
advanced data analytics and heuristics, Prism simplifies and streamlines common workflows within a
datacenter eliminating the need to have disparate management solutions.
Nutanix Prism is a part of the Nutanix software preloaded on the appliances, and it includes the following
components:
Prism Starter (included in Starter, Pro, and Ultimate Nutanix software editions): Provides ability to
configure, manage, and monitor a Nutanix cluster and centralized management of multiple local
and remote Nutanix clusters.
Prism Pro (Selectable software license; optional): Enables efficiency evaluation, capacity planning,
expansion recommendations, custom dashboards, and advanced search capabilities.
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