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Use Case 5: Profile Failover
VCEM Profile Failover provides a way to quickly move a VC Profile from one system to another. VCEM
profile failover may be triggered by three ways:
Option
Trigger method
Automation
VCEM GUI
The Profiles Tab.
The Bays Tab.
Manually by the system
administrator
VCEM CLI
The failed system’s hostname.
The failed system’s IP address.
The failed system’s enclosure and bay
number.
Manually by the system
administrator
HP System Insight
Manager(SIM) event
monitoring
HP SIM event handler issues script to VCEM
CLI
Automatically by HP SIM service
on the same server
This section isn’t intended to discuss profile failover options in detail. For more information, please check
the following technical white paper:
VCEM Profile Failover and Profile Moves: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01469068.pdf