Understanding the Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

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which in turn works with the Onboard Administrator and iLO for hardware management. VCEM can manage
infrastructures from single and multi-enclosure VC domains ranging from medium-sized installations to large data
center environments with hundreds of VC domains and thousands of servers. We have integrated HP Insight Control
with HP SIM to provide a secure platform to centrally manage servers, storage, and other infrastructure devices
across many operating system environments. HP SIM is the basis for health management in your IT environment. HP
Matrix Operating Environment (Matrix OE) offers high-level tools for capacity planning and service deployment
orchestration in both physical and logical servers.
Figure 4: VCEM Integrated Management is part of the HP management stack.
HP Insight Software integrated with VCEM provides a complete picture of the hardware.
All the tools in the HP management stack work together:
 VCEM
– Centralize connection and workload management
– Provide an address repository eliminating the risk of address conflicts