Lenovo ThinkAgile VX 4-Socket 4U Certified Node, User Manual

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Figure 8. Drive bay locations
The following table lists the drive bays and NVMe support for the Four-Socket Performance configuration.
Installed
process-
ors
Maximum storage
Location of NVMe drives (see Figure 8 “
Drive
bay locations
” on page 17)
4
24 drives (4 NVMe drives) Bays 8, 10 and 20, 22
Management options
Multiple management interfaces are available for managing your ThinkAgile VX MT 7Z12/7Z13 Series
appliances and nodes.
Lenovo XClarity Administrator
Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a centralized, resource-management solution that simplifies infrastructure
management, speeds responses, and enhances the availability of Lenovo server systems and solutions. It
runs as a virtual appliance that automates discovery, inventory, tracking, monitoring, and provisioning for
server, network, and storage hardware in a secure environment.
Lenovo XClarity Administrator provides a central interface to perform the following functions for all managed
endpoints:
•
Manage and monitor hardware
. Lenovo XClarity Administrator provides agent-free hardware
management. It can automatically discover manageable endpoints, including server, network, and storage
hardware. Inventory data is collected for managed endpoints for an at-a-glance view of the managed
hardware inventory and status.
•
Configuration management
. You can quickly provision and pre-provision all of your servers using a
consistent configuration. Configuration settings (such as local storage, I/O adapters, boot settings,
firmware, ports, and Lenovo XClarity Controller and UEFI settings) are saved as a server pattern that can
be applied to one or more managed servers. When the server patterns are updated, the changes are
automatically deployed to the applied servers.
•
Firmware compliance and updates
. Firmware management is simplified by assigning firmware-
compliance policies to managed endpoints. When you create and assign a compliance policy to managed
endpoints, Lenovo XClarity Administrator monitors changes to the inventory for those endpoints and flags
any endpoints that are out of compliance.
When an endpoint is out of compliance, you can use Lenovo XClarity Administrator to apply and activate
firmware updates for all devices in that endpoint from a repository of firmware updates that you manage.
•
Operating System deployment
. You can use Lenovo XClarity Administrator to manage a repository of
operating-system images and to deploy operating-system images to up to 28 managed servers
concurrently.
•
Service and support
. You can manually collect diagnostic files, open a problem record, and send
diagnostic files to the Lenovo Support Center.
Chapter 1
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Introduction
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