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Life cycle management (LCM) is a new framework that automates software and firmware updates for your XC Family clusters. Dell Technologies provides the LCM payload for the XC Family appliance. LCM uses iDRAC and industry-standard protocols to perform updates while maintaining your highly available production environment with no perceived end-user downtime.
The following figure shows an example of an XC Family LCM dashboard: