Nutanix Life Cycle Management voor Dell XC
Life Cycle Manager allows you to view all software and firmware updates from a single pane of glass. From the LCM dashboard you can do an inventory for all the entities in the cluster. LCM support new features for the Dell XC platforms in version 1.2. LCM is supported for the Dell 13G hardware family on AHV and on ESXi 5.5 and 6.0. This release adds LCM inventory and update support for the following components: • BIOS • iDRAC • HBA controller • NIC • Data drives (SSD and HDD) All the Dell XC updates are packaged within a Payload . A payload level determines what firmware versions are supported for LCM update. You can see on a fresh updated LCM on a Dell XC cluster the following dashboard: The Prism UI does not provide visiblility into the payload. Check this PDF for the current payloads for LCM 1.2. https://s3.amazonaws.com/ntnx-portal/documentation/kb/lcm-dell-payloads-v1.2.pdf You can see multiple software the LCM has inventoried. I explain some of th...