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HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager v1.10 - overview


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Note: Installation of VCEM requires Virtual Connect firmware v1.22 or v1.24

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HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) simplifies the management of BladeSystem environments that use Virtual Connect to control LAN and SAN connectivity, helping organizations increase productivity, respond more quickly to business demands, and significantly reduce operating costs. Built on the Virtual Connect architecture integrated into BladeSystem c-Class enclosures, VCEM provides a central console to manage and control up to 100 enclosures, a single resource pool for LAN and SAN address administration, group-based configuration management, plus the rapid assignment, movement and failover of server-to-network connections and associated workloads across the datacenter.

Together, Virtual Connect and Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager create a change-ready infrastructure that enables system administrators to add, replace and recover servers across the datacenter in minutes without impacting LAN and SAN availability. This flexible change-ready infrastructure also provides foundation capabilities for the logical server management delivered with HP Insight Dynamics-VSE.

What's new

HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager v1.10 introduces the following:
  • Automated failover of server connection profiles to spare server pools
  • Extended VCEM host options include VMware ESX 3.0 and a plug-in to HP Systems Insight Managers v5.2
  • Introduces support for BladeSystem Integrity servers
  • Enhanced maintenance tools simplify the configuration and modification of Virtual Connect hardware settings
  • Migration Utility to help transfer VCEM data from an existing v1.0 implementation to a new installation of v1.10

Ideal environment

Ideal for...

Datacenters with multiple BladeSystem enclosures

  • Centralize and simplify infrastructure management
  • Increase infrastructre consistency, IT productivity and avalability
  • Respond faster to changing workload and busness demands
  • Reduce the time, costs and risks associated with deploying and maintaing complex server and network infrastructures

Organizations with multiple locations

  • Single console simplifies infrastructure configuration, operations and server connectivity across local and remote sites using minimal administration
  • Reduce travel, response times and operating costs

Dynamic infrastructures

  • Add, modify and move server resources to meet changing workload and business needs
  • Rapidly repurpose server resources to address application priorities
  • Simple migration of severs from test environments to production
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