Understanding the Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

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The Make Changes via VC Manager button in Figure 10 invokes the VCM login screen and then the home page.
From there you would navigate to the “Define Ethernet Network” screen (Figure 10) and use this screen to add a
network.
Figure 10: This is the screen in the VCM GUI for defining a new Ethernet network.
When you complete the network definition and exit the domain maintenance mode, VCEM will replicate your
changes to all VC domains in the group. Without this VCEM functionality, you would need to use VCM to update
each of the 20 VC domains individually.
Provisioning bare metal enclosures
VCEM allows faster provisioning of bare metal enclosures (enclosures that are not associated with a configured VC
domain). If bare metal enclosures contain the same VC modules and connections as existing VC domains in a VC
domain group, you can provision the infrastructure more easily and quickly by propagating the group’s master
configuration. That also increases infrastructure consistency and simplifies deploying new enclosures and domains.