beautypg.com

Vcem home page features – HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager Software User Manual

Page 14

background image

Figure 4 VC server profile movement example

VCEM home page features

Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager uses a dedicated graphical user interface to access and control
Virtual Connect operations, which includes the following core tasks:

Discovers and imports existing VC Domains without system downtime.

Assigns and administers connection addresses for LANs (MAC) and SANs (WWN) from a
central address repository.

Creates VC Domain Groups.

Assigns and unassigns VC Domains to VC Domain Groups.

Defines server profiles and links to available LAN and SAN network resources

Assigns server profiles to BladeSystem enclosures, enclosure bays, and VC Domain Groups.

Changes, moves, or automatically fails over server profiles and related workloads to spare
servers.

Rapidly installs new bare-metal HP BladeSystem enclosures by assigning to a VC Domain
Group.

14

Introduction

This manual is related to the following products: