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The Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Microsoft System Center, v6.0 is a new offering that provides IT administrators with the ability to integrate the management features of Lenovo XClarity Administrator and the System x with Microsoft System Center. Lenovo expands Microsoft System Center server management capabilities by integrating Lenovo hardware management functionality, providing affordable, 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.

The Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Microsoft System Center provides:

  • 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
  • Integrated end-to-end management of System x hardware with monitoring of both physical and virtual server health
  • Operating system and hypervisor deployment with the latest Lenovo firmware and driver update management
  • Eliminate maintenance downtime through non-disruptive rolling firmware updates or server reboots which automates the VM migration and update process of the hosts in a cluster environment without any workload interruption
  • Minimize unplanned downtime by monitoring user-defined hardware events and automatically evacuating VMs in response to selected events to protect your workloads
  • Acquire and apply the latest UpdateXpress System Packs and individual firmware updates to your ESXi host systems
  • Collect Lenovo specific hardware inventory of Lenovo system x
  • Power on and off blades via Microsoft System Center Console
  • Author configuration packs to perform compliance checking on Lenovo System x servers
  • Manage servers remotely independent of operating system state
  • Multilanguage support: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Brazilian, Russian
  • One year of software service and maintenance (three years available as an option)

Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Microsoft System Center provides a fully functional 90-day trial license. Activation licenses can be purchased by contacting your Lenovo representative or a Lenovo Business Partner.

Current offerings for Microsoft System Center

Current offerings for VMware vSphere

Current offerings for Zenoss

Legacy Offerings

  • Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit - retired 19 Jul 2011
  • Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 - retired 12 Jan 2010
  • Microsoft System Management Server - retired 12 Jan 2010

Related offerings

Document Location

Worldwide

Operating System

System Management software:Operating system independent / None

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24 January 2019

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