Understanding the Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

VCEM performs the following management functions for BladeSystem servers that use VC:

 Centralizes connectivity and workload management

 Improves infrastructure consistency through a common configuration to deploy and manage VC domain groups

 Simplifies server migration from test to production

Organizations with multiple VC domains can use VCEM to complete tasks like these across the data center more

quickly, consistently and reliably:

 Add new VC domains, blade servers, and BladeSystem enclosures

 Modify multiple VC domains configurations

 Perform planned systems maintenance with minimal downtime by using VCEM domain maintenance capabilities

 Migrate and repurpose servers within or across different VC domains to quickly address changing workload

requirements

Management interfaces

You can access VCEM though a browser-based GUI or through the VCEM CLI to configure and deploy server

profiles, networks, and SAN connections in the VC environment.

VCEM GUI

VCEM consolidates network connection management and workload mobility for VC domains and server blades into

the single console shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: This is the VCEM home page.