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Overview

Lenovo Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) Management Platform is a management platform for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). It is deeply integrated with ThinkAgile VX hardware management, VMware virtualization, and vSAN management, as well as related O\&M operations and other value-added services, providing users with one-stop and visualized management services. In addition, it allows IT administrators to centralize the monitoring, management, configuration, and analysis of hyper-converged environments and provides hardware maintainability and platform lifecycle management functions.

User interface of the management platform

Note:

"Lenovo Software Defined Infrastructure Management Platform" is hereinafter referred to as "Lenovo SDI Management Platform".

Centralized monitoring and management of resources​

Lenovo SDI Management Platform provides a single interface for IT administrators to monitor and manage the infrastructure resources of Lenovo's hyper-converged systems in a centralized manner.

  • Summary view of the health status of managed resources. Managed resources include resource managers, hardware devices, and virtualized infrastructure resources (such as hosts, virtual machines, GPUs, storage, etc.).
  • Flexible 4K large screen. 4K HD resolution is supported. The usage and health status of physical and virtual resources in a cluster can be graphically displayed.
  • Detailed information about cluster resources, including the health status, inventory, and warranty status.
  • Monitoring of emergency alerts and events, with support for forwarding events to external applications.
  • Graphical server topology with front and rear panel views and hardware topology (including vSAN disks and power supplies).
  • Lifecycle management of managed resources, such as creation, cloning, migration, and power operations of virtual machines.
  • Support for launching the remote console of a device from the device summary page.

Integrated upgrade​

Lenovo SDI Management Platform is integrated with vSphere Lifecycle Manager and supports integrated rolling upgrades of operating systems, drivers, and server firmware.

Backup and restore​

Lenovo SDI Management Platform is integrated with Veeam Backup \& Replication and supports the backup and restore of virtual machines in a cluster.

Intelligent analysis​

Lenovo SDI Management Platform collects and displays trend data, and provides analysis reports based on existing data.

GPU Virtualization for AI/ML​

Lenovo SDI Management Platform is integrated with GPU virtualization management functions and supports GPU resource sharing among containers, physical machines, and virtual machines.

Personalized settings​

Supports customized settings of the login page, homepage, and large-screen display page.

Hybrid cloud solution​

Supports connection to Lenovo hybrid cloud management platforms, with IaaS for HCI resources.

Enterprise-level software features​

Provides users with features such as permission management, multi-language support, online upgrades, authorization management, and log download.