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Lenovo XClarity One

Lenovo XClarity One is a versatile, unified management platform designed to simplify the administration of Lenovo servers. Available in both cloud-based and on-premises local VM versions, this solution offers a consistent, user-friendly interface for monitoring, managing, and optimizing data center resources. With advanced automation capabilities, XClarity One streamlines routine tasks, reduces operational complexity, and enhances system performance. Whether deployed in the cloud or on-premises, it provides scalability, flexibility, and remote access, ensuring high availability and reliability for IT infrastructure. Ideal for businesses of all sizes, XClarity One delivers the tools and insights needed to drive operational efficiency and support business growth.

Attention
XClarity One is a for-fee offering. To purchase XClarity One or to request a free trial, contact your local Lenovo sales representative (see Licenses).

XClarity One is made up a portal and one or more hubs. The portal is the primary interface for managing your IT infrastructure. The hub acts as a secure bridge between your devices and the portal to collect inventory, incidents, and service data, and to deploy firmware, device settings, and operating system on those devices. You can install one or more hubs across multiple sites, depending on where your devices are located.

XClarity One provides a modern, initiative interface to manage and monitor your hubs and managed devices.

  • Dashboards that highlight items in your organization that require your attention.

  • Summary views of the health of your organizations, hubs, and managed devices.

  • Summary and detailed views of component health, asset inventory, and warranty status for your devices across multiple sites

  • Aggregation of critical alerts and events, and event forwarding external applications

  • Life-cycle control for managed devices using templates (including firmware updates, device settings configuration, and operating system deployment).

  • Remote server and remote console access for hubs and managed devices

  • Usage data and trends, such as processor and memory usage, power consumption, processor temperature

  • Automatically problem notification to Lenovo Support using Call Home

Setting up XClarity One​

Flexibility is designed into the XClarity One set up. You can use XClarity One hosted in the Lenovo cloud with on premises management hubs or hosted as a fully on-premises solution, with or without Internet access.
Architecture diagram

  • Cloud

    Using XClarity One in the cloud is recommended for small to medium businesses that desire enterprise-grade capabilities without the heavy upfront investments and IT overhead.

    The advantages of using XClarity One in the cloud are:
    • Lenovo hosts, manages and maintains the XClarity One environment for you.
    • Software updates are installed as soon as it is released.
    • Security fixes and software updates are installed as soon as possible.
    • Customer fixes are installed as soon as possible, depending on the severity.
    • Latest Lenovo firmware updates are uploaded as soon as they are released.
    • High service level objectives (SLOs).

    To get started using XClarity One in the cloud, you need to set up an organization in the XClarity One cloud portal. Your view of XClarity One is based on the organizations that you are part of. An organization can be created for your entire company or one or more departments in your company. Only the organization owners and users that are assigned to the organization can access management hubs, devices, and data within the realm of that organization. You can request a new organization from the Sign-in page at xclarityone.lenovo.com. After the organization request is approved by Lenovo, you will receive an email from XClarity One that lets you know that the organization was created and gives a link to get started. For more information, see Setting up XClarity One in the cloud.

  • Local virtual machine (on premises)

    XClarity One can be deployed in your datacenter as a virtual machine on a local host.

    XClarity One hosted as a local VM requires Internet access, either directly or through a web proxy, to perform certain functions.

    • Send automatic problem notification through Call Home

    • Retrieve service ticket status and history

    • Retrieve device warranty

    • Update the firmware catalog and download firmware packages directly from the web (Note that firmware packages can be manually imported.)

    • Perform firmware CVE analysis

    To get started using XClarity One locally in your data center, you need to download and install XClarity One as a virtual machine. A setup wizard guides you through the initial configuration. For more information, see Setting up XClarity One as a local VM.

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PDF linkXClarity One: Managing your data center assets