Enabling/disabling vSphere Lifecycle Manager

LXCI acts as the hardware support manager for vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM),and enables vLCM to manage Lenovo ESXi servers with a cluster-wide image consisting of base ESXi, Lenovo drivers addon, and a firmware addon.

Before you begin

Ensure that the target server is supported. For more information about the supported machine types, refer to Table 1.

Procedure

Users can enable or disable LXCI as the hardware support manager for vLCM.

On the vCenter Connection page, click Disable or Enable on the vSphere Lifecycle Manager column to change the vLCM status for the required server.

For more information about managing firmware updates through vLCM, refer to Working with the vSphere Lifecycle Manager function.

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