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– Monitoring
Administrators are able to find the right information and accomplish critical tasks faster through an
uncluttered, dashboard-driven graphical user interface (GUI). Centralizing and automating foundational
infrastructure deployment and lifecycle management tasks across large pools of systems frees up
administrator time, and makes resources available to end-users faster.
Lenovo XClarity is easily extended into the leading virtualization management platforms from Microsoft
and VMware using software plug-ins, called Lenovo XClarity Integrators. The solution improves workload
uptime and service-level assurance by dynamically relocating workloads from affected hosts in the cluster
during rolling server reboots or firmware updates, or during predicted hardware failures.
For more information about Lenovo XClarity Administrator, see the
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/systems/software/systems-management/xclarity/ and the
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/flexsys/information/topic/com.lenovo.lxca.doc/aug_product_page.html.
• Installing Lenovo XClarity Administrator
– Installing Lenovo XClarity Administrator for the first time
The initial setup of Lenovo XClarity Administrator involves preparing the network, installing and
configuring the Lenovo XClarity Administrator virtual appliance, managing systems, and optionally
setting up automatic problem notification.
There are a number of different ways to connect manageable systems to the network
and to set up the Lenovo XClarity Administrator to manage those systems based on the
network topology that is implemented in your environment. For guidance for installing
the Lenovo XClarity Administrator in VMware ESXi-based and Hyper-V environments, see
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/flexsys/information/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.lenovo.lxca.doc%2
Fsetup.html.
– Free 90-day trial
Lenovo XClarity Administrator offers a free, 90-day trial license that enables you to use all available
features (including operating-system deployment, firmware maintenance, and configuration
management) for a limited time.
After 90 days, you can continue to use Lenovo XClarity Administrator to manage and monitor your
hardware for free; however, you must purchase a full-function-enablement license to continue using
Lenovo XClarity Administrator to configure your hardware using Configuration Patterns and to deploy
operating systems. You can purchase Lenovo XClarity Administrator licenses from your Lenovo seller
or business partner.
For information about installing the license, see
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/flexsys/information/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.lenovo.lxca.doc%2
Fupdate_lxcasw.html.
– Updating Lenovo XClarity Administrator
You can download or import Lenovo XClarity Administrator updates and
install the updates from the Lenovo XClarity Administrator web interface.
For information about updating a Lenovo XClarity Administrator, see
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/flexsys/information/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.lenovo.lxca.doc%2
Fupdate_lxcasw.html.Ensure that you carefully read the Installation and Setup Instructions in the
Invgy_sw_lxca_***_anyos_noarch.txt file that is provided in the update package .zip file.
• Multi-core processing
The server supports Intel Xeon E5-26xx v4 series multi-core microprocessors. The server comes with
one microprocessor installed.
• PCI adapter capabilities
The server has three PCI interface slots: low-profile half-length, OCP type mezzanine, and customized
mezzanine.
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