HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 6.1 User Guide

A server profile defines connections for a blade server. Server profiles can include the following information:
• Profile name
• Logical serial number and logical UUID
• Ethernet network connections and PXE settings
• MAC addresses
• Fibre Channel fabric connections
• WWN addresses
• Server boot configuration
• BIOS settings
Newer VC Domain versions provide a broader configuration set in the server profile. The following table
lists the features that are configurable depending on the VC Domain versions.
Virtual Connect 2.1xVirtual Connect 2.3xVirtual Connect 3.0xFeature
•••Server VLAN tagging
•••Add/Remove Fibre Channel
SAN connections
•••Integrity blade support (EFI
partition data)
•••Ethernet connection port speed
configuration
•••Double-density blade support
•••Enhanced SNMP configuration
•••Multienclosure VC Domain
•Assign profiles to multi-blade
servers BL850 I2, BL870 I2,
BL890 I2 in c7000 and c3000
enclosures
•Add up to 128 Ethernet
connections
•Add extended FC connections
for multi-blade systems
From the managing profiles screen, you can perform the following tasks:
• Create a profile
• Delete one or more profiles
• Edit a profile
• Assign a profile
• Unassign a profile
• Copy a profile to a bay
• Move a profile
• View network and Fibre Channel information for a profile
• Perform a VC Profile Failover operation
NOTE: 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
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