Lenovo ThinkAgile CP 4000 Series, Hardware Installation Manual

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• CP Interconnect
The Interconnect centralizes connectivity of your on-premises infrastructure to the Cloud Controller and
acts as the entry point into your existing network, which connects the Cloud Controller to your
environment. The CP Interconnect consists of one or two high-density, ultra-low-latency 10/40 GbE
network devices and use specialized cloud software which provides the fabric for your composable
environment, automating discovery, onboarding, and device management. Integrated network
virtualization secures virtual data center and applications.
Figure 3. CP Interconnect
• Management Switch
The 1 GbE management switch is required to provide out-of-band (OOB) management for the
Interconnect, Compute Blocks, and Storage Blocks. The switch can be supplied by Lenovo (ThinkSystem
NE0152T RackSwitch), or customers may provide their own switch.
Figure 4. Management switch
• Cloud Controller
Cloud Controller orchestrates and manages the on-premises infrastructure and workloads; however, it
resides in the cloud. It automates and orchestrates infrastructure provisioning in real time to achieve
complete and secure vertical hardware, software and workload integration. It federates and abstracts all
physical hardware into a private cloud service.
Cloud Controller provides a single point of management across an unlimited number of ThinkAgile CP
stacks with role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, and secure HTML and RESTful API
interfaces.
Chapter 1
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ThinkAgile CP Overview
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