Understanding the Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

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– Change, move, and automatically failover servers and their workloads
 HP Insight Control
– Server lifecycle
– HP SIM
– Power management
– VM management
– Remote support
 HP Matrix OE
– Infrastructure design and orchestration
– Capacity planning
– Systems recovery
VCEM and Matrix OE
HP Matrix OE is an integrated infrastructure management stack containing the tools needed to build and manage
an infrastructure as a service. Matrix OE includes the essential server management delivered by HP Insight Control
and VCEM. Matrix OE uses the VCEM and HP SIM ability to centralize connection management and workload
mobility and to manage server health proactively. These capabilities support the key Matrix OE roles of provisioning
and optimizing the infrastructure.
A key capability that VC and VCEM bring to Matrix OE is the ability for the VC abstraction layer to enable Matrix
OE logical servers. This gives physical servers the same kind of portability possible with virtual machines. For more
information on VC and Matrix OE logical servers, see the “HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Logical Server
Management User Guide” at
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03132774/c03132774.pdf.
Configuration and deployment
Deploying new resources and changing existing configurations manually is time consuming and error prone. VCEM
gives you overall domain status, domain-wide consistency, and target and source compatibility in failover events.
Automated discovery simplifies infrastructure mapping. Setup wizards simplify initial setup and configuration.
Discovery
You can use the HP SIM discovery capability to identify VC Ethernet modules, Onboard Administrators in enclosures
that contain VC Ethernet modules, and VC domains.
Setup Wizard
If you are installing VCEM as part of the HP Insight Management suite, you can access the Insight Managed System
Setup Wizard after the discovery process. You can also run the Insight Managed System Setup Wizard as part of
the HP Insight Management suite to set up systems, for example, to apply VCEM licenses to systems you want to
manage. For more information about the wizard, see the “HP Insight Management 7.0 Installation and
Configuration Guide.” You can find the guide at
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/unified/infolibraryis.html.
VC domain groups
A VC domain group is a collection of domains with common Ethernet and Fibre Channel interconnects, and with
uplinks to the same LANs and SANs. Establishing a VC domain group allows you to upgrade, replace, or move