Lenovo XClarity

Orchestrator
Speaker Name | Date

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Key Data Center Management Challenges

• Hardware provisioning and

maintenance
.

• Data-driven, connected view of

data center operations

• Transforming infrastructure
resources into services

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 Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator
Simplifying Large Scale Deployments

XClarity Orchestrator

XClarity Administrator

Global
Datacenter

Datacenter
ThinkAgile

Storage / Networking
Servers / Chassis

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 Chuck Weber
XClarity Family
• XClarity Essentials
XClarity Integrators
- 1 to 1 management and scripting tools for customers.
- Some tools integrated into XClarity Administrator

• XClarity Mobile
- Remotely monitor systems with integration into XClarity XClarity Orchestrator XClarity Orchestrator
Administrator .
Manager of Mangers Analytics
- Virtual LCD panel for Purley Systems forward

• XClarity Administrator
- HW monitoring and Alerting XClarity Administrator

Mobile
XClarity Mobile
- Updated Firmware, Configuration and OS deployment
- Scalability to manage up to a 1000 Nodes

• XClarity Orchestrator – Manager of Managers

XClarity
- Enables management scalability for 10,000 servers and
hundreds of chassis, across multiple domains

• XClarity Orchestrator – Analytics

- Predictive Failure information learned will help all customers Servers Storage Networking
and lower overall service costs.
- First step towards having self healing systems.

• XClarity Integrators XClarity Essentials

- Integration into virtualization managers and upper level
management tools. ( ie. VMware, Microsoft, RedHat, Ansible,
Chef, Puppet, Splunk, MS Azure Analytics, etc.)
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 XClarity Orchestrator - Offering Overview
• Single pane of glass for multiple Lenovo XClarity
Administrator instances

• Views of Multiple XClarity Administrator domains

• Inventory & Heath Status summary views

• Detailed drilldowns for all devices managed by Administrator.

• Launch in Context to managing Administrator

• Event logs & Audit logs

• Centralized Call home improve with improves security by

only requiring a single communication pipe to the outside
world. XClarity
Orchestrator

• Predictive Analytics:  Rules-based and machine-learning

analytics included, as well as ability to forward to 3rd party
analytic software

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 XClarity Orchestrator – Manager of Mangers Functions v1.0
Manager of Managers – Simplifying Large Scale Deployments
• Single pane of glass for multiple LXCA instances
– Centralized user management
– Manage up to 10,000 devices
• Views of Multiple LXCA groups/site overviews
• Inventory summary views
• Health status summary views
– LXCA, Servers, Switches, Storage
• Firmware compliance report
• Configuration pattern compliance report
• Service/Support: Call home, Warranty
• Launch in Context to LXCA

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 XClarity Orchestrator – Analytics Functions v1.0

Predictive Analytics – Using AI to predict and prevent

problems

• Dashboard of predicted alerts

• Machine learning with UEFI logs
• Warn users of systems susceptible to known
problems, using rules engine
• Analytic query charts
• Integration with 3rd party analytics
- Splunk
• Cumulative Event and Audit logs

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 XClarity Orchestrator Roadmap
• Single pane of glass for multiple LXCA • Additional predictive analytics use cases • Basic firmware Update

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instances • Custom queries if possible • Analytics on metrics data
– Centralized user management • Make metric data available for queries • Machine learning using
– Manage up to 10,000 devices
mo • Inventory/data heartbeat to Lenovo Premium Support
• Rack view support
Power/thermal metrics
• User settable thresholds

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• Views of Multiple LXCA groups/site overviews • Backup/Restore • Surface alerts from UEFI FFDC analyzer
• Inventory summary views • Integration with Schneider EcoStruxure • External database support
• Health status summary views
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• Integration with SAP Data Hub for analytics • Capacity planning use cases for analytics

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• Manage up to 35,000 devices
– LXCA, Servers, Switches, Storage
• Firmware compliance report
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• Configuration pattern compliance report

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• Service/Support: Call home, Warranty
• Predictive Analytics
• Dashboard of predicted alerts
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• Machine learning with UEFI logs
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• Integration with 3rd party analytics
• Splunk
• Cumulative Event and Audit logs
• Launch in Context to LXCA
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Release
Release 1.1 Release 2.0
1.0
May ‘20 Aug ‘20
Mar ‘20
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Orchestrator - Part Numbers

Offering Description GEO Part Number Feature Code Price

XClarity Orchestrator, Per Endpoint w/1Yr S&S WW 7S0X0001WW S2JR $100
XClarity Orchestrator, Per Endpoint w/3Yr S&S WW 7S0X0002WW S2JS $300
XClarity Orchestrator, Per Endpoint w/5Yr S&S WW 7S0X0003WW
. S2JT $500
XClarity Orchestrator, Per Chassis w/1Yr S&S WW 7S0X0004WW S2JU $1,000
XClarity Orchestrator, Per Chassis w/3Yr S&S WW 7S0X0005WW S2JV $3,000
XClarity Orchestrator, Per Chassis w/5Yr S&S WW 7S0X0006WW S2JW $5,000
XClarity Orchestrator Analytics, Per Endpoint w/1Yr S&S WW 7S0X0007WW S2JX $100
XClarity Orchestrator Analytics, Per Endpoint w/3Yr S&S WW 7S0X0008WW S2JY $300
XClarity Orchestrator Analytics, Per Endpoint w/5Yr S&S WW 7S0X0009WW S2JZ $500
XClarity Orchestrator Analytics, Per Chassis w/1Yr S&S WW 7S0X000AWW S2K0 $1,000
XClarity Orchestrator Analytics, Per Chassis w/3Yr S&S WW 7S0X000BWW S2K1 $3,000
XClarity Orchestrator Analytics, Per Chassis w/5Yr S&S WW 7S0X000CWW S2K2 $5,000

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XClarity Orchestrator – Log in Screen

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XClarity Orchestrator – Main Dashboard

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XClarity Orchestrator – Server Dashboard

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XClarity Orchestrator - Alerts

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XClarity Orchestrator - Events

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XClarity Orchestrator – Unauthorized Access Attempts

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XClarity Orchestrator – Firmware Statistics

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XClarity Orchestrator – Event Forwarding

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XClarity Orchestrator – Service Data

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XClarity Orchestrator – Warranty Data

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XClarity Orchestrator – Call Home

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XClarity Orchestrator – Service Tickets

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XClarity Community
Connecting with customers

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Lenovo XClarity Forum
• For clients, partners, and Lenovo
employees to start and respond to
topics
– Ask and answer questions .

– Provide instructions and tips

– Make announcements

• Link to Forums

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Ideation – Requirements Input
• For clients, partners, and Lenovo
employees to provide input on product
requirements
– Enter requirements .

– Vote and comment on requirements

– View status of requirement requests

• Link to Ideation Site

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Schedule a Briefing or Remote Demo, POT, or POC
Lenovo Executive Briefing Centers and Innovation Centers
Engage Subject Matter Experts and Quickly Generate Key Information for Decision-Makers

• Face-to-face briefings • Remote access • Hands on interaction • Solution test focus

Research Triangle Park Stuttgart Beijing

North Carolina Germany China

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