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XClarity

The infrastructure's management: provisioning, firmware and monitoring of the Lenovo estate — the fleet from one console.

FOCUS · THE GOVERNED FLEETDiscovery, patterns and firmware campaigns: a hundred ThinkSystems managed as one
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01 · What it is

Lenovo XClarity, made clear.

XClarity is the Lenovo estate's console: One (the orchestrator) discovers the systems, applies configuration patterns (the new server takes identity and settings from a template), orchestrates the firmware campaigns and monitors the health — with the alerts arriving where needed. The server estate as a fleet, not as a collection.

Pattern
the configuration as a template: the new server is born already right
Campagne
the firmware updated in waves: the uniform, demonstrable baseline
API
everything scriptable: XClarity inside the automation (Ansible included)
Lenovo XClarity
OFFICIAL LENOVO BRANDING · XCLARITY
CONSOLE REALE · XCLARITY ONE DASHBOARD · FONTE: LENOVO PRESS
REAL CONSOLE · XCLARITY ONE DASHBOARD · SOURCE: LENOVO PRESS
02 · How to use it well

The things that make the difference.

La console

IT operationsthose who govern the iron
Discovery
Patterns & provisioning
Firmware & health
inventory · standardize · maintain
XClarity One/Administratorthe fleet's direction
XCC on every nodethe agent already on board
The Lenovo fleet, one page

The inventory that makes itself

The estate's discovery: models, serials, firmware and warranties in a real table.

Patterns per role

Host, DB, edge: the templates that make every installation a photocopy of the proven.

The campaigns in the calendar

Firmware validated and applied in waves: the BMC's CVE closed on the estate in a week.

Alerts in our flow

The XClarity events inside Yocto Vision: the predictive failure becomes a ticket, not a surprise.

03 · In depth

XClarity One: the management that becomes a platform

XClarity One unifies the management: the SaaS (or on-prem) orchestrator aggregates the fleet's inventory, firmware, alerts and energy, the template provisioning takes the bare metal to OS-ready without hands, the update campaigns update in waves with rollback, the integration (Ansible, Terraform, ServiceNow) brings the iron into the automation; the per-node energy telemetry feeds the ESG reports and the electrical capacity planning.

  • Template provisioning — from the box to OS-ready: the new rack in hours
  • Update campaign — firmware in waves with rollback: the fleet aligned
  • Alert proattivi — the fault anticipated with the integrated case opening
  • Ansible/Terraform — the iron in your IaC: the provisioning is code
  • Energia per nodo — the kWh measured: the ESG and the electricity bill governed
  • SaaS o on-prem — the console where you want it: even air-gapped
04 · Numbers and lifecycle

The numbers that matter.

h
from the box to production with the templates
100%
of the fleet on firmware baselines
kWh
the telemetry for the ESG reports
API
everything automatable: the management is a platform
The fleet is managed by baselines: templates, campaigns and telemetry — inside our managed services.
05 · Use cases

Where it really pays off.

Growing estates

The management that scales with the racks.

Firmware compliance

The demonstrable baselines for the audits.

Automation

The provisioning inside our runbooks.

The iron is managed as fleets: XClarity is the command bridge — the helm we hold.