Vsan Hardware Quick Reference Guide

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VMwareOEM licenses are sold as a Subscription with included 1 year (for Co-term), 3 year, or 5 years support with Lenovo hardware. All Lenovo offerings come with VMware OEM licenses, L3 support provided by VMware and L1 and L2 support provided by Lenovo.

Lenovo offers XClarity Integrators for VMware vCenter, VMware vRealize Orchestrator and VMware vRealize Log Insight. For more information, please refer to the Lenovo XClarity Administrator Product Guide.

Lenovo has proven experience in developing and delivering VMware-based solutions that help customers modernize and simplify their IT infrastructure to dramatically drive down operating costs and open the door to cutting-edge innovations. Built around the latest Lenovo ThinkSystem servers' hardware, the Lenovo solution with VMware provides businesses with an affordable, interoperable, and reliable industry-leading solution to manage their virtualized workloads.

VCF is the software stack that serves as the foundation of private and hybrid clouds enabling a cloud operating model that provides the benefit of public cloud with the security and performance of on-premises private clouds. It is full-stack hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with fully integrated compute, storage, networking, and management with automation for reduced complexity and lower TCO.

VMware offers integrated, software-defined solutions with built-in automated lifecycle management that combines virtualized services for compute, storage, networking, security, and cloud management. It delivers consistent infrastructure for private, hybrid, and multi-cloud demands.

Kubernetes is integrated within VCF, delivering full-stack, developer-ready infrastructure with VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. Any environment based on VMware Cloud Foundation now natively supports both VM and container workloads.

A simplified, enterprise-grade workload platform for mid-size to smaller customers. Integrates vSphere with operations management to provide performance, availability, and efficiency with greater visibility and insight. Can be upgraded to Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solution with an optional software-defined storage (vSAN) add-on.

The Lenovo Server Operating System Interoperability Guide (OSIG) is a comprehensive source of information about operating system compatibility with Lenovo servers. It includes servers in the ThinkSystem, ThinkAgile, System x, ThinkServer, NeXtScale, Flex System and BladeCenter product families and covers servers that are currently supported by Lenovo under warranty.

Use the dropdown menus to filter and fine tune your search. In each of the search results, the support statement column contains clickable links that opens a popup window with details about the support.

The ServerProven program validates selected products for compatibility with ThinkSystem, System x, BladeCenter and Flex System servers. Through the ServerProven Program, Lenovo works with industry leaders to test their equipment with Lenovo products.

Lenovo XClarity Integrator offerings for VMware provides IT administrators with the ability to integrate the management features of Lenovo XClarity Administrator with VMware vCenter and VMware vRealize solutions. Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a centralized resource management solution that reduces complexity, speeds up response, and enhances the availability of Lenovo ThinkSystem infrastructure and ThinkAgile solutions. For more information on the XClarity family of software tools, visit -center/software/management/

Lenovo XClarity Integrator extends the virtualization management capabilities of VMware with Lenovo hardware management functionality, providing affordable foundational, basic management of physical and virtual environments to reduce the time and effort required for routine system administration.

Lenovo XClarity Integrator integrates XClarity Administrator into VMware software, providing the functionality you need to manage Lenovo infrastructure right in the console of VMware software. Lenovo offers XClarity Integrators for VMware vCenter, VMware vRealize Orchestrator and VMware vRealize Log Insight.

The Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vRealize Orchestrator provides IT administrators with the ability to coordinate physical server provisioning features of Lenovo XClarity Pro with broader vRealize Orchestrator workflows. Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vRealize Orchestrator provides a library of simple yet robust and customizable workflow routines and actions designed to automate complex, repetitive IT infrastructure tasks such as system discovery and configuration, hypervisor installation, and addition of new hosts to vCenter.

The Lenovo XClarity Administrator Content Pack for VMware vRealize Log Insight simplifies the collection and forwarding of Lenovo XClarity Administrator logs to VMware vRealize Log Insight for powerful processing and analytics, and displaying insightful information in an intuitive format.

The VMs for VMware vCenter, vRealize Orchestrator, Lenovo XClarity Administrator and Lenovo XClarity Administrator Integrator should have access to the management network used for managing servers, storage and networking.

Lenovo XClarity Integrator for vRealize Automation provides cloud administrators with pre-built, reusable vRealize service blueprints for end-to-end infrastructure provisioning and management. XClarity blueprints enable you to deliver hosts, clusters, and virtual resource pools on demand, as a service. Well-coordinated automation of complex, repetitive tasks help you put more focus on innovation, spend less time on infrastructure, and compress application development times.

The Lenovo OS Support Center for VMware web page provides quick and easy access to supported firmware and drivers for VMware. Lenovo maintains this repository of all qualified drivers with links to firmware and utilities qualified in conjunction with these drivers.

The Lenovo VMware ESXi custom image is tested across Lenovo's server and adapter portfolio with the same ServerProven support guarantee as VMware's base release. The image enables support of Lenovo's tools, including ToolCenter that give the customer the ability to flash server firmware such as: UEFI, XCC, and vendor firmware for supported IO adapters. The image includes the latest drivers that align with VMware's release schedule. These updated drivers support Lenovo's portfolio.

These bundles and associated VIBs (vSphere Installation Bundles) can be used with VMware applications and tools like VMware Update Manager (VUM), ESXCLI & PowerCLI. To learn more about these tools, refer to the VMware documentation.

Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series appliances are designed to help you simplify IT infrastructure, reduce costs, and accelerate time to value. These offerings are factory-integrated, pre-configured ready-to-go appliances and are based on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and VMware vSAN Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) software. VMware offers a unique, software-defined approach to hyper convergence, leveraging the hypervisor to deliver compute, storage and management in a tightly integrated software stack. If you have an existing VMware environment, VX Series can integrate into it easily.

Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series appliances include Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage, a unique Lenovo Service that helps to ensure your systems are up and running quickly and easily. Lenovo Services will set up and configure your new solution and provide any training needed to get the system operational. Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage includes a direct phone line to a team of experts who support only ThinkAgile solutions. The experts will rapidly diagnose any hardware or software issues and remain as your single-

Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Certified Nodes allow customers to purchase VMware-certified hardware from Lenovo that does not include the software licensing or deployment services bundled in. ThinkAgile VX Certified Nodes include VMware software preloaded at the factory. Hardware firmware, drivers, and software updates are tested for interoperability and release with the product. ThinkAgile Certified Nodes are assigned Lenovo part numbers for ease of ordering. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series Certified Nodes include Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage but customers have the flexibility of calling VMware directly for software support in cases where the software licenses are purchased from VMware.

Abstract: Running Google Anthos on-premises allows customers to lower costs by hosting containerized applications on their own virtual infrastructure, improve security as sensitive data remains within the data center, and streamline application development since customers can test and deploy the same container applications designed to run in Google Cloud on premises before publishing publicly.

Lenovo vSAN ReadyNodes are Lenovo systems that have been pre-configured, tested and certified for VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Software. Lenovo vSan ReadyNode is optimally configured for vSAN with the required amount of CPU, memory, network, I/O controllers and storage (SSDs, HDDs or flash devices). With Lenovo vSAN ReadyNodes you can rapidly deploy pre-engineered, tested and scalable storage to meet growing performance and capacity needs. Lenovo vSAN ReadyNodes are delivered in a range of all-flash and hybrid nodes to meet a broad array of workload, performance, and budget needs.

For customers that prefer to build their own, Lenovo provides Engineered Solutions to speed deployment, optimize performance and ensure scalability of industry-leading enterprise applications on Lenovo hardware infrastructure. Lenovo Engineered Solutions are a range of pre-configured, tested, and validated best practice configurations, system-level appliances, rack-based appliances, and professional services offerings designed to reduce TCO, risk, and complexity. Guidance is provided in reference architectures, configuration guides, and solution guides.

In this course you will learn about ways to initiate and conduct a conversation about Lenovo XClarity One. Lenovo XClarity One is a cloud-based, unified software management platform, that integrates TruScale Infrastructure as a Service, Management as a Service, and Smarter Support Analytics to simplify orchestration, automation, and metering from the edge to the cloud. By the end of this course, you will be able to describe the Lenovo XClarity One software, identify the main Features and Benefits of XClarity One, and discover the available XClarity One Contacts and Resources.

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