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Installing Lenovo XClarity Administrator in a Nutanix AHV environment

There are a number of different ways to connect manageable devices to the network and to set up the Lenovo XClarity Administrator virtual appliance to manage those devices. Use the information in this section as a guide to setting up manageable devices and installing the XClarity Administrator virtual appliance in a Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) based environment.

This section describes how to set up several common topologies. This section does not cover every possible network topology.

Attention
To manage devices, XClarity Administrator must have access to the management network.
  • Single data and management network (Nutanix AHV)
    In this topology, both the data network and management network are the same network. All communications between Lenovo XClarity Administrator and the network occurs over the Eth0 network interface on the host. The XClarity Administrator Eth1 network interface is not enabled.
  • Physically separate data and management networks (Nutanix AHV)
    In this topology, the data network and management network are physically separate networks. Management communications between Lenovo XClarity Administrator and the network occurs over the Eth0 network interface on the host. Data communications occurs over the Eth1 network interface.
  • Virtually separate data and management network topology (Nutanix AHV)
    In this topology, the data network and management network are virtually separate. Packets from the data network and packets from the management network are sent over the same physical connection. VLAN tagging on all management-network data packets is used to keep the traffic between the two networks separate.