Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager Quick Start Implementation Guide

Prepare Management Server to Install VCEM Software

VCEM is based on HP System Insight Manager (SIM) on Windows. HP SIM is the central management

solution for HP servers and storage arrays. The white paper won’t cover SIM details. SIM information can

be accessed at http://www.hp.com/go/sim .

VCEM installation requires the following windows components. It’s recommended that users meet these

requirements before installing VCEM. Otherwise there will be some error messages along the installation

path prompting users that the required components have not been installed.

Component

Comments

Host Operating

System

VCEM is supported on Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2. For detailed

compatibility matrix, please check Page 11 of “HP Insight Software 6.3 Support

Matrix” doc.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02786379/c0

2786379.pdf

.Net 3.5 SP1

(reboot needed)

This is required by MS SQL Database 2008 R2 Express, which is the default

database HP SIM and VCEM will use.

For installation process, please refer:

Appendix 1: Install .Net 3.5 SP1 on Windows 2008 R2 server

Data Execution

Prevention (DEP)

setting

(reboot needed)

DEP is a security feature for MS Windows. VCEM installation needs the DEP

setting to be changed to “opt-in” from default “opt-out” mode.

For detailed description of this setting, please see

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352

For installation process, please refer:

Appendix 2: Change DEP setting on Windows2008 R2 server

SNMP

SNMP service must be enabled on the VCEM server and a minimum Public

community with READ-ONLY right needs to be defined.

For installation process, please refer:

Appendix 3: Install SNMP service on Windows2008 R2 server

Adobe Flash Player

Both HP SIM/VCEM and VCM requires flash player.

DNS

It’s strongly recommended that the DNS and reverse DNS is setup in your

environment so that NSLOOKUP either by name or by IP has the right results

returned. HP SIM is tightly based on DNS lookup for many operations. Without

DNS, a VCEM POC should be able to run but it’s not recommended for any

production environment.