HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP BladeSystem servers (487616-001, February 2008)

Figure
7
:
HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager Enclosure View
One
server
blade in the enclosure is part of a performance sensitive, mission
-
critical Oracle RAC
database.
Not finding an obvious c
ause for the excessive temperature, the administrator decides to
use an available
server
blade in another enclosure to add a server to the
database
cluster to ensure
adequate performance and redundancy while
the administrator
investigates the problem.
Thi
s RAC cluster is part of a horizontally scalable application and was configured with additional
database instances, which are turned off during normal operations.
The additional database
instances were created,
configured,
and tested in advance on servers
configured using Virtual
Connect
server
blade profiles, specifying LAN and SAN connectivity for each
server
blade.
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
The use of
V
CEM server connection profiles makes it easy
for you
to move or repurpose servers to
meet cha
nging workloads, to recover failed server hardware to a spare server, or perform more
efficient systems maintenance.
The
VCEM
application (
Figure
8
) builds on underlying HP
SIM
services,
Virtual Connect hardware
,
a
nd the Onboard Administrator (OA) in each enclosure to discover and
centrally manage multiple BladeSystem enclosures that use Virtual Connect
. These enclosures are
referred to as Virtual Connect Domains.
VCEM also provides a central database to control MAC
and
WWN
assignments for LANs and SANs, which eliminates potential address conflicts.