HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 6.1 Release Notes

Server power management
VCEM might not correctly present the power state of a server when the server is powered off using VC
Manager.
Server profile operations
• VCEM profile operations for Integrity server blades requires VC Domain versions 2.0x or later.
• To create profiles for Integrity server blades that boot from SAN, you must manually configure the SAN
boot entries in the blade server EFI console.
• If the server profile has Flex-10 connections enabled, and server blade NICs (onboard or mezzanine
card) are connected to HP 10/10Gb-F Virtual Connect Ethernet Module, Virtual Connect requires you
to power off the server blade to perform any server profile operation.
VC Profile Failover
• When you initiate a VC Profile Failover operation, VCEM does not check the compatibility of the physical
connections of the target server. The VC Profile Failover operation automatically selects an available
spare server of the same type and assigns the profile, but assumes that the correct physical connections
are already in place.
• When a Failover is executed, HP SIM may not update the servers information. To resolve this issue, run
a manual HP SIM discovery of the affected systems.
Adding or removing VC modules to VC Domain Group Configuration
To add or remove VC modules to all VC Domains managed by a VC Domain Group:
1. Go to VCEM, click the VC Domain Groups tab, select the desired VC Domain Group where you want
to add or remove VC modules, and then click Delete. For more information, see the HP Virtual Connect
Enterprise Manager User Guide .
2. For each VC Domain released from the VC Domain Group, insert or remove VC modules in the
corresponding enclosure, and perform the necessary domain, network, and storage configuration
changes in the Virtual Connect Manager user interface.
Before VC module removal, remove the VC module uplink ports from all existing Network or Shared
Uplink settings from VC Domain configuration.
For VC module removal, from the VC Manager user interface, click Hardware
Overview→Enclosure_Name→Interconnect Bays, select the VC module at the bay you want to
remove, then click Remove from Domain.
3. Return to VCEM, click the VC Domain Groups tab, and click New. For more information about creating
a VC Domain Group, see the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager User Guide . At step 1 of the
creating a VC Domain Group procedure, select the VC Domains to add to the new VC Domain Group.
Wait until the job operation is completed. As a result, the new VC Domain Group created contains an
updated configuration reflecting the new VC modules.
NOTE: Existing profiles cannot see new FC SAN connections added using these steps. For more information,
see the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager User Guide .
Profile operations fail, and the error message "An invalid boot LUN was entered.
Check the storage arrays for the proper LUN number" appears
VCEM requires the boot target LUN configuration and server profiles to be either a 3-digit decimal between
0-255, or a 16-digit hexadecimal between 0 and FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
This message appears whenever a profile move or failover operation is performed with a server profile that
has a boot LUN that fails to does not comply with the conditions stated here. This situation can happen when
a server profile is created in Virtual Connect Manager, and then you try to manage it with VCEM.
To resolve this issue:
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