Open-source alternative  ·  Server Management

Replace Lenovo XClarity Administrator with Netbox + Ansible + Redfish.

Netbox for data centre inventory, Ansible for configuration management and firmware compliance, Redfish API for hardware-level control. Self-hosted, no per-node licensing.

You'd keep~R155 400 to ~R310 800/year

Current licence  ·  Server Management

Lenovo XClarity Administrator

~R155 400 – ~R310 800/yr

10-user estimate

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Netbox + Ansible + Redfish

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R310 800/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Lenovo XClarity Administrator's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard

R155 400/yr

R1 295/user/month

Per server

With Netbox + Ansible + Redfish

Keep R155 400/yr

Advanced

R310 800/yr

R2 590/user/month

Per server

With Netbox + Ansible + Redfish

Keep R310 800/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Lenovo XClarity Administrator grows around 10% per year on average. Netbox + Ansible + Redfish hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR138kR275kR413kR551kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R501kR31k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R2.21M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Lenovo XClarity AdministratorNetbox + Ansible + Redfish, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other server management migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Migrate Lenovo XClarity Administrator.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.