Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter

Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter

Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter

IMPORTANT

LXCI 8.5.0 Fix Patch 1 or Fix Patch 2 is a pre-requisite for all later versions. Before upgrading to v8.6.0 or later versions of LXCI, install one of the following fix patches based on your needs:

  • LXCI 8.5.0 Fix Patch 1: Install lnvgy_sw_vmuim_8.5.0_fp1 to enable to manually import updates for LXCI v8.6.0 or later versions;
  • LXCI 8.5.0 Fix Patch 2: Install lnvgy_sw_vmuim_8.5.0_fp2 to enable to manually import and automatically display updates for LXCI v8.6.0 or later versions.

Overview

Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter provides IT administrators with the ability to integrate the management features of Lenovo XClarity Administrator and ThinkSystem, Flex System, System x and BladeCenter systems with VMware vCenter. Lenovo expands the virtualization management capabilities of VMware vCenter with Lenovo System x hardware management functionality, providing affordable foundational, basic management of physical and virtual environments to reduce the time and effort required for routine system administration. It provides the discovery, configuration, monitoring, event management, and power monitoring needed to reduce cost and complexity through server consolidation and simplified management.

Key Features

  • Provides a dashboard overview of the managed host or cluster system inventory and health status.
  • Eliminates maintenance downtime through non-disruptive rolling firmware updates or server reboots which automates the update VM migration and process of the hosts in a cluster environment without any workload interruption.
  • Minimizes unplanned downtime by monitoring user-defined hardware events and automatically evacuating VMs in response to selected events to protect your workloads.
  • Monitors and tracks host server energy usage, thermal history, and fan speed, and enables throttling and capping of energy consumption.
  • Manages the current system settings on the host including BMC, uEFI, and boot order settings for the host.
  • Simplifies firmware management by assigning compliance policies to managed endpoints to ensure that firmware on those endpoints remains compliant.
  • Seamless Integration with Lenovo XClarity Administrator, providing physical hierarchy view of Lenovo infrastructure, visualizing inventory map views of managed servers and conveniently configuring servers with configuration patterns.
  • Supports firmware update with vSphere Lifecycle Manager, to provide a convenient method of orchestrating firmware updates through a defined cluster-wide image.
  • Provides an embedded graphical topology view and wizard to remove/replace a vSAN disk for ThinkAgile VX appliance servers, supports cluster level hardware topology view for ThinkAgile VX appliance servers.

Supported Systems

Supported Software

Lenovo XClarity Integrator Virtual Appliance Full Image

Open Source and Other Software

File Link File Description
lnvgy_utl_lxci_vmuim-8.6.0-9_vmware_indiv Lenovo XClarity Integrator Virtual Appliance Full Image for ESXi

Obtain earlier versions of Lenovo XClarity Integrator Virtual Appliance

Lenovo XClarity Integrator Virtual Appliance Updates

Note: This update package only applies to Lenovo XClarity Integrator 8.5.0 fp1 or fp2. If the version of your VMware vCenter is earlier than 7.0 (U1), do not upgrade LXCI to a version later than 7.7.0

File Link File description

lnvgy_utl_lxci_upack-8.6.0-9-8_vmware_indiv

Lenovo XClarity Integrator Virtual Appliance Update Package

Documents

Please visit Lenovo Information Center link below to obtain the documentation of Lenovo XClarity for VMWare vCenter. If you want to obtain documentation other than your native language, please change your web browser setting to the target language. The supported languages are : English, Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian.

Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMWare vCenter User Guide and Release Notes

Videos

Please visit the Lenovo video links to learn new features of Lenovo XClarity for VMWare vCenter.

Hardware Topology

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Alias Id:LNVO-VMWARE
Document ID:HT115212
Original Publish Date:10/31/2016
Last Modified Date:12/19/2024