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Open Cloud Automation

The automated deployment of clusters and private clouds: from the metal to the workload with repeatable pipelines.

FOCUS · FROM THE METAL TO THE CLUSTERBare metal, OS, platform: the new cluster erected by a pipeline, not by weeks
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01 · What it is

Open Cloud Automation, made clear.

Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) automates what usually costs weeks: from the freshly unboxed server to the working cluster — discovery, BIOS/firmware, OS, network and the platform on top (VMware, Kubernetes, telco stacks) — with declarative, repeatable pipelines. The infrastructure's 'day 0/1', industrialized.

Day 0/1
from the bare metal to the platform: the automated path
Ripetibile
the same playbook for site 1 and site 50: the exact copy
Multi-stack
VMware, K8s, private clouds: the destination of your choice
Open Cloud Automation
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02 · How to use it well

The things that make the difference.

The chain

The ready clusterVMs or containers at work
Metal & firmware
OS provisioning
The platform
the iron · the base · the brain
LOC-A · the pipelinesthe declarative automation
Sites and edge in seriesthe scale without trips
The infrastructure as an assembly line

The cluster blueprint

The recipe written once: network, storage and versions codified — the craftsmanship eliminated.

The peripheral scale

Ten edge sites erected remotely: the pipeline works, the technician doesn't travel.

Automatic validation

The post-deploy tests in the pipeline: the cluster delivered commissioned, with the report.

Rebuild as an option

The cluster rebuildable from code: the disaster (or the mistake) solved by rerunning.

03 · In depth

Open Cloud Automation: the bare metal as cloud

XClarity One Open Cloud Automation (OCA) brings the cloud experience onto the bare metal: the clusters get declared (YAML/API) and the OCA provisions from the naked metal — firmware, OS, network, storage — up to the ready Kubernetes or hypervisor, the lifecycle (scale, update, repurpose) is declarative, the multi-tenant serves the teams with quotas; it's the piece for the private clouds and the providers: the rack that becomes a self-service platform without a commercial layer on top.

  • Dichiarativo — the cluster described in YAML: the OCA materializes it from the metal
  • Full-stack — firmware→OS→network→K8s: the whole chain automated
  • Repurpose — the node recycles its role in hours: from VM host to AI worker
  • Multi-tenant — teams and quotas: self-service on the in-house iron
  • API-first — the integration into the existing portals and flows
  • No licenze stack — the private cloud without the per-socket toll
04 · Numbers and lifecycle

The numbers that matter.

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from the metal to the ready cluster
YAML
the infrastructure as a declaration
0
additional cloud license layers
the repurpose: the iron that changes trade
The bare metal becomes strategic again: OCA for the private cloud without taxes — the design and the rollout we sign.
05 · Use cases

Where it really pays off.

Multi-site rollouts

Branches and plants equipped in series.

Private cloud

The VMware/K8s base erected by a pipeline.

Telco & edge

The industry's standard for massive deployment.

A cluster erected by hand is a prototype: with LOC-A it's a product — reproducible at will.