HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 6.1 User Guide

Select the VC Domain from the VC Domain page and click License. The License Enclosure page

is displayed.

2. Click Add Key.

3. Enter the license key string, and then click OK. If the license key is valid, it is added to HP SIM.

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.

6. The VC Domain list page reappears, displaying the updated status of VC Domains.

7. The VC Domain appears with Informational status.

Creating a VC Domain Group

You can create a VC Domain Group by selecting the VC Domains that you want to incorporate into a new

VC Domain Group.

IMPORTANT: This VCEM operation does not provide a reference 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 supports multienclosure VC Domains. A multienclosure VC Domain is a VC Domain with 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 Virtual Connect Manager.

2. Find and import a local enclosure, and then select the appropriate Double-dense option.

3. Skip the Network and Fibre Channel configuration wizards, and then navigate directly to the VC Domain

user interface.

4. Find and import the necessary remote enclosures in the correct order through Virtual Connect Manager.

5. Go to HP SIM and perform a manual discovery for the Onboard Administrator IP address of all released

VC Domain enclosures.

VCEM cannot manage a VC Domain that has one or more FC modules in an Incompatible state.

The FC module can become incompatible in the following situations:

• An HP Virtual Connect 4Gb FC module replaces an HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24-port FC module.

• An HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24-port FC module replaces a HP Virtual Connect 4Gb FC module.

• If HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24-port FC modules and HP Virtual Connect 4Gb FC modules share the

same IO bay slice. (For example, a HP Virtual Connect 4Gb FC module in IO Bay 3 and a HP Virtual

Connect 8Gb 24-port FC module in IO Bay 4).

• In a multienclosure VC Domain, if there are mixed HP Virtual Connect 4Gb FC modules and HP Virtual

Connect 8Gb 24-port FC modules in the same IO bay from different enclosures. (For example, 4Gb

FC modules in the local enclosure, but 8Gb FC modules in the remote enclosures.)

To create a VC Domain Group from the VC Domains page, select the VC Domains:

1. Click New VC Domain Group.

(Optional) If the enclosures related to the selected VC Domains are not licensed to VCEM, then the

License page appears below the VC Domains list. For more information, see Licensing an enclosure for

VCEM. Otherwise, the Create VC Domain Group appears below the VC Domains list.

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