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Life cycle operations, such as software or hardware upgrades (including complex and risky firmware updates), typically involve time-consuming manual research to check whether an upgrade is available, needed, beneficial and not conflicting with the current versions of other components before moving forward. In a complex and at scale Hybrid Multi-Cloud environment, such a manual process is ineffective and, in many cases, impossible to execute in a controlled manner. Hence, needs for automation.
The goals of LCM is to provide a reliable administration of a system from its provisioning, through its operational stage, to its final retirement. Key functions of Infrastructure LCM:
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