Lenovo XClarity and Dell Systems Management

Lenovo XClarityTM & Dell Systems

ManagementJust the Facts

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Mar-2016

Product Marketing


Lenovo Approach to Systems

Management


Lenovo XClarityTM Simplifies Systems Management

Mobile

App

HTML5 User

Interface

▪ Discover ▪ Define ▪ Deliver

IT Application Integration

XClarity Integrators and

REST APIs

Lenovo Infrastructure

Scripting

▪ Optimize Power

Deliver new systems in up to

75% less time1

Define and control physical

systems using intuitive software

Programmatically control

systems from your own IT apps

1. http://www.principledtechnologies.com/Lenovo/XClarity_Administrator_management_comparison_0615.pdf,

http://www.principledtechnologies.com/Lenovo/XClarity_Administrator_management_comparison_0915.pdf

FAST

AGILE

INTER-OPERABLE




Define and Control Physical Systems from External IT

Applications with XClarity Integrators and REST APIs

3rd Party ISV and Open Source IT Applications

Infrastructure Resource

Management Apps

Orchestration and

Automation Apps

IT Service

Management Apps

Pool of Managed Open Standards-

Based Lenovo Infrastructure

• No overlapping functionality with

external IT applications

REST APIs

XCLARITY INTEGRATORS


Pool of Managed Open Standards-

Based Lenovo Systems

vCenter

System Center

Virtual Machine

Mgr

vRealize

Automation*

vRealize

Orchestrator

vRealize Log

Insight

Resource

Manager

Service

Dynamics

Splunk

System Center

Configuration

Mgr

System Center

Operations Mgr

• PROVIDE DATA TO EXTERNAL IT APPS

• TAKE ACTION ON SYSTEMS

TRIGGERED BY EXTERNAL IT APPS

*Available soon

Integrators

for 3rd party

IT apps

KEYInfrastructure

mgmt

Orchestration

& automation

IT service

mgmt

Virtual infrastructure

management

Cloud infrastructure

management

Orchestration and automation

management

Availability, performance, and

incident management

Change, configuration, and

release management

Business service level

management

Hardware infrastructure

management

IT APPLICATION CATEGORY

Extend Your IT Applications with XClarity Integrators

vRealize

Operations (Blue

Medora)


Dell Approaches to Systems

Management


Dell’s Multi-Pronged Approach to Systems Management

Dell Servers with

embedded iDRAC

Dell OpenManage

Essentials with Multiple

Components

Dell Active System

Manager Built From

Multiple Components

Single large, monolithic application

bolting together multiple components

• Combination of acquired and open source

tools that has changed over time

• Provides no integration with OpenManage

and overlaps with its functionality

• Overlaps with 3rd party and open source

workflow automation and scripting tools

Multiple systems management

components

• Based on Windows Server and SQL Server,

requires multiple installable components to

discover, monitor, update, configure, and

deploy operating systems

• No integration with Active System Manager

Option I Option IIvs.

Redundant functionality,

no integration, and no

migration path


Lenovo XClarityTM and

Dell Active System Manager


Dell Active System Manager is a Complicated

Monolithic Application with a Complicated History

?• Open Source Puppet workflow automation

is added to ASM

• Scalent systems management and

DynamicOps workflow tools are

combined to create Advanced

Infrastructure Manager (AIM)

• Dell acquired Scalent• Dell acquired Gale Technologies

• VMware acquired DynamicOps

(vRealize Orchestrator)• Dell announces acquisition of EMC

and VMware

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

1. Sources

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/31/dell_active_system_manager_sap_hana/

• http://www.itcandor.com/dell-ciandis/

Active System Manager bolts together multiple tools with wide-

ranging functionality, and has constantly changed over time1

• DynamicOps tools are replaced by Gale

Technologies tools to create Active System Manager

(ASM), which replaces AIM

Acquisitions

ASM Components

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/31/dell_active_system_manager_sap_hana/

http://www.itcandor.com/dell-ciandis/


Dell Active System Manager Represents an Investment

in Legacy Approaches to Data Center Automation

Workflow

Orchestration

• Emphasis is on simplifying

a small number of well-

defined tasks for hardware

infrastructure

Systems

Management

• Emphasis is on

flexibility to map a wide

range of labor-intensive

data center actions and

tasks into broader

automation routines

• Discover systems

• Define and configure systems

• Update systems

• Install hypervisor and OS

• Monitor and handle events

Dell Active System

ManagerREST APIs

• Discover systems

• Define and configure systems

• Update systems

• Install hypervisor and OS

• Monitor and handle events

Modern Approach to Data Center AutomationDeploy small, specialized IT applications that are loosely

coupled to increase agility and stability

Emphasis on bigger is better and complexity

Legacy Approach to Data Center AutomationCreating a single, large, monolithic IT application by

bolting together wide-ranging functions from multiple tools

increases risk of instability


Dell Active System Manager Overlaps with Existing

Data Center Orchestration Applications

VMware Cloud

Software Stack

vRealize Automation

vRealize Orchestrator

vCenter

vSphere

• Packaged with vCenter

at no additional cost1

• Easily integrates with

vRealize software and

vCenter

OpenStack Cloud

Software Stack

Horizon

Heat, Ironic, or

Scripting Apps

Nova

KVM

1. https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-orchestrator/pricing.html

• Open source or ISV-

hardened software

Dell Active System Manager

Overlaps with Existing Orchestration

Apps, Increasing Both Complexity

and Cost

https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-orchestrator/pricing.html


Lenovo XClarity and Your Orchestration Application

Simplify End-to-End Workflows

Accelerate data center agility and reduce risk

• Faster and simpler Day 1 provisioning of cloud resources

• Infrastructure provisioning self-service

• End-to-end provisioning workflow automation

Workflow Orchestration

Application• App and virtual infrastructure

specific actions

• Lenovo hardware-specific

actions

New Clusters with

Lenovo

InfrastructureREST API

Calls

Provisioning

Tasks

Virtual resource workflows and task execution

Simplified Systems

Management

Loosely

CoupledSimplified Workflow

Automation


Lenovo XClarityTM and

Dell OpenManage Essentials


Dell OpenManage Essentials is a Complicated Array of

Multiple Dell and 3rd Party Software Components

Dell OpenManage

Essentials

Single software application

Auto-discovery

Inventory tracking

Fault handling & Call Home

Identify & apply firmware

updates

Configure systems

Install hypervisors & OS

Scale to manage 560

servers

1 Virtual

Appliance

Automates

Provisioning

and

Management for

up to 560

Servers

All the above plus an

additional Windows

Server and external

SQL Server

OME, SupportAssist,

Repository Manager,

and Windows Server

OME Server

Configuration

Manager license on

each managed

server, deployment

file share on each

server, and License

Manager

Multiple Software

Components


XClarity Administrator and Dell OME ComponentsLenovo XClarity

XClarity Administrator

Virtual Appliance

• Configuration patterns

• Firmware updates with compliance

policies

• OS and hypervisor installation

• Monitoring with call home and

events handling

• Auto-discovery

1. http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/dell-ome-v2.0.1_User's%20Guide_en-us.pdf

Dell OpenManage Essentials for

discovery, monitoring, updates

Dell SupportAssist

for call home

Dell Repository Manager for

firmware updates

Dell License Manager for

configuration & OS install

SQL Server

for scalability

Windows ServerWindows Server

Server Configuration Management

license on each server’s iDRAC for


Dell OME1

Deployment file share on each server for


http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/dell-ome-v2.0.1_User's Guide_en-us.pdf


Summary


The Difference is Clear

No overlap with your existing external IT applications

Single application for hardware lifecycle management

Singular, simplified approach to data center management

Extend existing investment in apps without rip and replace

DellActive System Manager &

OpenManage Essentials with

Multiple Components

With Your Existing IT

Applications

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Useful Links

Product Web Page and Resources:

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/systems/softwar

e/systems-management/xclarity/

Data Sheet:

http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/syste

m-x/pdfs/datasheets/xclarity_ds.pdf

lenovo.com

For more

information

contact your

Lenovo sales

representative

Demonstration videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLQcI

fVNrqzca0EnOs1IP5NoUDF3gxydv

Product Guides:

https://lenovopress.com/software/manageme

nt/xclarity


http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/systems/software/systems-management/xclarity/

http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/datasheets/xclarity_ds.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLQcIfVNrqzca0EnOs1IP5NoUDF3gxydv

https://lenovopress.com/software/management/xclarity

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