Managing edge infrastructure at scale is a complex challenge
Data continues to grow in volume and variety. Processing needs are also moving to distributed edge locations, following the data and fueling AI models to make them smarter. This is a challenge since edge locations lack IT expertise to deploy and maintain the edge infrastructure needed to process that valuable data. Often, this leads to suboptimal performance, security risks, and high operational costs. To alleviate the above, Lenovo Open Cloud Automation delivers smarter edge deployments for AI and non-AI use-cases. The software solution enables remote deployment of your edge infrastructure. By automating provisioning, installation, and configuration, it reduces costs and complexity. Reduces time to market for Edge AI scenarios. Now you can ship unconfigured devices and manage their roll out from a central location. Lenovo Open Cloud Automation helps to skip the hassles of factory integration and staging. It's the smarter way to deploy and scale your edge infrastructure deployments.
Reduce Costs, Complexity, and time to market for Edge AI
With LOC-A, you can ship bare metal servers straight to edge locations. Your team drives edge infrastructure deployment using LOC-A's automation from a self-hosted, centralized portal. By remote installing the OS and cluster software, LOC-A simplifies the server journey.
Your team controls the configuration from a central portal, not by hand, on-site or in staging. This reduces operational costs and helps with managing a complex, distributed edge environment. LOC-A simplifies roll out so your team can focus where their work matters most.
Simplify Deployment Management
Get full visibility and control over your distributed edge infrastructure roll out. Define automated workflows for provisioning, deploying, updating, and managing your global edge footprint. With centralized oversight your team can ensure consistency, security, and optimal performance across all sites. With LOC-A you reduce the need for on-site IT skills.
Automate Provisioning and Configuration
LOC-A automates the entire process, from bare-metal provisioning to cluster configuration, for faster edge AI deployments. After the servers get installed on-site, LOC-A takes over. LOC-A does device on-boarding and Day 0 provisioning, OS installation and configuration, and Cluster deployment. All with settings and parameters tailored to each location, device, OS, and cluster. Templates created by your team in LOC-A enable repeatable deployments while ensuring adherence to standards – your team does not write any code. Automation eliminates manual steps to speed up your edge AI infrastructure roll out.
Key Features and benefits
- Automated provisioning and configuration of ThinkEdge servers
- Remote and automated deployment of OS and Cluster Software from central portal
- Centralized deployment management and visibility
- Customizable workflow templates
- Tailored configurations by location
- Simplified scaling of edge infrastructure roll out
- Software-defined process from shipment to deployment
- Reduced staging, logistics, and on-site IT skilled labor
- Edge hardware compatibility
Components
- Centralized deployment portal
- Automation engine
- UI driven, customizable deployment templates
- Registration utility
- Meta-data management
- Deployment monitoring and status
- REST APIs for integration
- Plugin Mechanism for fast onboarding of deployment templates
Comparison
Capability | Current practices | Lenovo Open Cloud Automation |
Provisioning | Manual on-site / staging / factory preload – complex logistics | Automated from a self-hosted, central portal |
Configuration | Manual on-site / staging / factory preload – labor intensive | Automated, tailored to device/OS/cluster/location |
Deployment Management | Limited visibility | Centralized, self-hosted portal |
Scaling | Add more human resources – increase costs | Simultaneous automated deployment tasks Asynchronous physical and logical roll-out |
Security | Ad-hoc - Inconsistent and possibly insecure practices | Centrally managed policies |
Smarter Edge AI Deployments, Simplified
LOC-A speeds up the deployment of edge infrastructure from a central portal. It automates the entire process, from initial setup to on-going management enablement. It enables you to bring up your Edge AI infrastructure faster. The software solution reduces the need for hands-on IT labor through automation. This drives down operational costs while ensuring consistent security and performance. Smarter edge deployments, simplified.
Licensing
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation software subscriptions are available per deployment flavor type and based on number of nodes, and duration. Either 3 and 5 years options as shown in the table below for the different scenarios supported.
LOC-A Software Subscription Licensing – Basic nZTP | SKU |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation - nZTP with Device Management platform onboarding for 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 1 year support. Price per node | 7S0Y0009WW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation - nZTP with Device Management platform onboarding for 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 3 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y000AWW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation - nZTP with Device Management platform onboarding for 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 5 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y000BWW |
LOC-A Software Subscription Licensing – OS deployment | SKU |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation - Ubuntu Bare-metal OS Deployment for 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 3 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y000CWW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation - Ubuntu Bare-metal OS Deployment for 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 5 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y000DWW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation - Cent OS Bare-metal OS Deployment for 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 3 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y000EWW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation - Cent OS Bare-metal OS Deployment for 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 5 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y000FWW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation - Oracle Linux Bare-metal OS Deployment for 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 3 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y000GWW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation - Oracle Linux Bare-metal OS Deployment for 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 5 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y000HWW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation - VMware ESXi Bare-metal OS Deployment for 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 3 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y000JWW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation - VMware ESXi Bare-metal OS Deployment for 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 5 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y000KWW |
LOC-A Software Subscription Licensing – Cluster deployment | SKU |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation RedHat 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 3 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y0005WW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation RedHat 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 5 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y0007WW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation VMware 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 3 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y0006WW |
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation VMware 1-socket ThinkEdge server with 5 years support. Price per node | 7S0Y0008WW |
Why Lenovo for Edge AI
Lenovo infrastructure is built on a global manufacturing, services, and support footprint, and is ranked #1 globally in server reliability*. Our Edge AI and partner validated solutions are built on open standards and interfaces to preclude vendor lock-in.
Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) offers at scale automation so that your teams can focus on Edge AI use-cases and not on infrastructure roll out.
For More Information
To learn more about the Lenovo Open Cloud Automation, contact your Lenovo representative or Business Partner, or visit https://www.lenovo.com/open-cloud-automation.
About Lenovo
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