HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager Software - Manual (Page 64)

6. Click OK. The message Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) is executing
the request
appears.
7. Click OK to go to the Jobs page and monitor job progress.
Moving a profile
VCEM detects the presence of logical server managers or upper level managers. When performing this task,
a prompt dialog message appears and explains the impact of performing that task from outside the logical
server manager or upper level manager. The following message appears:
IMPORTANT: VCEM has detected you may be using other products, such as HP Insight
Dynamics – VSE. Moving this Server Profile to another Server Bay can make it
inconsistent with the upper level manager. It is recommended to use the upper
level manager to move this Server Profile to another Server Bay. Type YES to
proceed with this operation.
To proceed, you must type YES, and then click OK. VCEM does not proceed if you cut and paste YES into
the field.
1. From the Profiles page, select a profile.
2. Click Move. The Move Profile page appears.
3. In the Move to Bay list, select an available bay to which the new profile is to be moved.
4. Click OK. The Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager is executing the request message
appears.
5. Click OK to go to the Jobs page and monitor job progress.
Performing a VC Profile Failover
Virtual Connect Profile Failover is a VCEM feature that enables the automated movement of VC server profiles
and associated network connections to customer-defined spare servers in a VC Domain Group. The manual
movement of a VC server profile requires the following steps to complete the operation, but VC Profile Failover
combines these separate steps into one seamless task:
1. Power down the original or source server.
2. Select a new target server.
3. Move the VC server profile to the target server.
4. Power up the new server.
VC Profile Failover operations require the source and target servers to be configured to boot-from-SAN, and
can be initiated from the VCEM graphical user interface (GUI) as a one-button operation or from a command
line interface (CLI). When used with the automatic event handling functionality in HP SIM, VC Profile Failover
operations can be automatically triggered based user-defined events.
When selecting a target server from a pool of defined spare systems, VC Profile Failover automatically
chooses the same server model as the source server.
System administrators can use VC Profile Failover to perform the rapid and cost effective recovery of physical
servers within the same VC Domain Group with minimal administrator intervention.
IMPORTANT: When you perform a VC Profile Failover, no reference is provided to the VC Domain from
HP SIM. To access this reference, you must correlate the HP SIM and Virtual Connect logs. For more
information, see
Correlating VCEM operations in HP SIM and Virtual Connect logs .
VCEM detects the presence of logical server managers or upper level managers. When performing this task,
a prompt dialog message appears and explains the impact of performing that task from outside the logical
server manager or upper level manager. The following message appears:
IMPORTANT: VCEM has detected you may be using other products, such as HP Insight
Dynamics – VSE. Performing a failover of a Server Profile to a designated spare
blade may make it inconsistent with the upper level manager. It is recommended
to use the upper level manager to edit this Server Profile. Type YES to proceed
with this operation.
To proceed, you must type YES, and then click OK. VCEM does not proceed if you cut and paste YES into
the field.
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