HP Insight Management-Software - Manual (Page 43)

2. Click Add Key and enter the key string.
3. Select one or more unlicensed VC Domains.
4. Click Apply License.
5. Click OK to validate the key string.
NOTE: License key fields are case-sensitive
If the key string is valid, the key is added to HP Insight Management.
6. Click Next to provide VC Domain credentials.
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For existing VC Domain Groups:
1.
Select the VC Domain from the VC Domains page, and then click License.
The License Enclosure page appears.
2. Click Add Key.
3. Enter the license key string, and then click OK.
If the license key is valid, it is added to Systems Insight Manager. The License Enclosure
page reappears, displaying the number of available licenses.
4. Select the VC Domain to which you want to apply the VCEM license.
5. Click Apply License.
The VC Domains page reappears, displaying an updated informational status of the VC
Domains.
For more information, see “Product licensing” (page 10) .
Preparing to create a VC Domain Group
In defining a VC Domain Group, consider hardware and firmware update paths. Smaller VC
Domain Groups allow smaller units to update while larger VC Domain Groups have less
management touch points. Larger VC Domain groups take longer to propagate configuration
changes when completing maintenance mode. More fully configured VC Domains take longer to
propagate than those with fewer network and storage connections.
If there are collections of VC Domains which are managed by different teams, it may be useful to
place them in separate VC Domain Groups and use VCEM RBAC settings to control administrative
access to the various VC Domains. Since all the VC Domains in a VC Domain Group share identical
uplink, SAN fabric, and VLAN definitions this can also place constraints on the size of VC Domain
Groups
Creating a VC Domain Group
You can create a VC Domain Group by selecting the VC Domains that you want to include in the
new VC Domain Group.
IMPORTANT: This VCEM operation does not provide a reference to the VC Domain from Systems
Insight Manager. To access this reference, you must correlate the Systems Insight Manager and
VC logs. For more information, see
Correlating VCEM operations in Systems Insight Manager and
VC logs .
VCEM supports multienclosure VC Domains. A multienclosure VC Domain has one local enclosure
and up to three remote enclosures.
To manage multienclosure VC Domains in VCEM, you must perform the following steps before you
create a VC Domain Group:
1.
Log in to VCM.
2. Find and import a local enclosure, and then select the appropriate Double-dense option.
Preparing to create a VC Domain Group 43