Software offerings
Use this topic to view all available software components and the license options in a solution product.
Lenovo software
| Software | Type | Function description |
Lenovo ThinkAgile VX deployer | GUI–based deployment wizard | Simplifies and automates cluster deployment and configuration processes. |
Lenovo XClarity Integrator for vCenter Server | A plugin program for VMware vCenter Server | Integrates Lenovo hardware management utilities to VMware vCenter Server management tool. |
Lenovo XClarity Controller | Baseboard management controller | Manages devices of a single appliance and connects the appliance to the management layer. |
Lenovo Capacity Planner | Capacity planning tool | Plans the power supply capacity based on server configurations. |
Lenovo Energy Manager | Power management tool | Monitors and manages cluster power consumption. |
VMware software
| Software | Function description |
| Lenovo-customized vSphere ESXi | Virtualizes, allocates, and manages compute, storage, and network resources of the physical hosts. |
| VMware vCenter Server | Provides centralized management utilities for virtual machines and ESXi hosts. |
| VSphere Web Client | Connects remoter users to the vCenter Server platform. |
| VMware vSAN | Aggregates local devices of a host cluster and creates a single storage pool shared across all hosts in the Virtual SAN cluster. |
| VSphere Update Manager (VUM) | Keeps the ESXi hosts and firmware the latest. (Supported on vCenter Server 6 or earlier) |
| vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) | Keeps the ESXi hosts and firmware the latest. (Supported on vCenter Server 7 or later) |
License considerations
The ThinkAgile VX series provide different license options catering to your needs. You can use the default feature set of both Lenovo and VMware software, upgrade your software to an enhanced set, extend your license term, or reassign existing licenses to nodes or clusters as required.
For detailed licensing information, perform the following steps:
Go to https://lenovopress.com/ and choose .
Locate and double-click the product name.
View the part number and feature code of each license option in the Software section.