Automated Full-Stack Life Cycle Management
Nutanix Life Cycle Manager automates and orchestrates software and firmware updates across your infrastructure reducing risk and manual effort.
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One-Click, Non-Disruptive Upgrades
Centralized Upgrades
Manage your entire software and firmware upgrade lifecycle from a single location.
Zero Guesswork
Validate component compatibility and resolve dependencies before upgrades begin.
Management at Scale
Seamlessly orchestrate and execute upgrades across multiple clusters and regions with precise control.
Capabilities and Benefits
Centralized Fleet Management
Gain complete visibility across your global environment from a single, unified location. Nutanix LCM provides real-time infrastructure inventory that displays software and firmware versions running across your environment, and automatically identifies available updates and compliance gaps.
Automated Dependency Management
Eliminate the manual compatibility tracking with automated validation of software and firmware dependencies across your environment.
Nutanix LCM intelligently resolves upgrade sequencing and component compatibility in advance, reducing manual risk, even in disconnected dark-site environments.
Seamless Upgrades
Nutanix LCM is designed to maintain application and cluster availability through full-stack upgrades. Nutanix LCM automates pre-upgrade health checks to proactively identify risks and generates an optimized upgrade plan to preserve availability during the upgrade process.
Policy-driven scheduling gives you control to execute upgrades aligned to your maintenance windows.
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Unified Platform Upgrades
Get the flexibility to choose from a range of hardware and software vendors that fit your business needs. Nutanix LCM unifies upgrades across all platforms into a single, consistent workflow. Run your infrastructure anywhere, with the simplicity of one control plane to manage it all.
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Software Upgrades
Nutanix is Trusted By
"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
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FAQ
Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM) simplifies the IT infrastructure lifecycle operations by delivering a simple, fast, and deterministic methodology for performing software and firmware upgrades.
Nutanix LCM automates the upgrade process by intelligently resolving software and firmware dependencies across your environments. By removing manual tasks and error prone processes, it provides a simple and efficient way to keep your Nutanix clusters up to date and performing at their best.
Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM) is a core component of the Nutanix platform and is natively included with Prism, it does not require a separate add-on license.
Yes, Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM) supports dark site upgrades to support businesses with strict security requirements. For more information, read the Nutanix LCM datasheet.
LCM supports a range of software (such as AOS, Foundation, Prism, Licensing Management) , firmware, and hardware (such as Nutanix Cloud Clusters, HPE, Dell, Cisco, Fsas Technologies, and Lenovo) upgrades.
