LCM simplifies Nutanix IT infrastructure life cycle operations by consolidating software and firmware component upgrades into a unified control plane.
An infrastructure inventory shows software and firmware versions running across the environment, including any new versions available for deployment.
Similar to a Linux YUM package manager, LCM enables the deployment of multiple infrastructure upgrade packages across a distributed cluster like AOS and Prism Central.
LCM elevates IT teams from the minutiae of software and firmware dependencies by automating the entire process.
When an IT administrator selects an update package, LCM automatically adds all corresponding upgrades that are a part of the dependency chain, ensuring that, with 1-click, everything required will be installed.
Customers benefit from streamlined upgrade workflows with minimized infrastructure maintenance windows due to how LCM intelligently calculates the most optimal plan for all upgrade packages to be deployed.
Based on the bundle of components -- software or firmware-- that are selected for upgrade by the IT administrator, LCM creates a plan that ensures the updates are deployed with the minimal number of service or host restarts.
Nutanix LCM provides a common control plane for upgrading Nutanix infrastructures.
"What Nutanix helped us with is not just giving my weekends back, but enabling me. By using Life Cycle Management technology we did all these upgrades within business hours on a Monday morning without the business even knowing about it."
- Johan Van Tonder End User Computing Sr. Innovation Manager, Nedbank
"In the past we had to do a lot of stuff outside of office hours and now we select full upgrade and it starts the full upgrade process for the full stack from bottom to top and that has made our life a lot easier."
– Sammy Bogaert Infrastructure Lead, Delen Private Bank
Nutanix customers can choose from a range of hardware platform vendors to power Nutanix software infrastructures. As a result, LCM was designed to simplify firmware upgrades across different platform types and provide organizations with a single, unified upgrade solution.
The LCM software upgrade experience is the same whether infrastructure is deployed on-premises or with Clusters in a public cloud.
