HP Insight Management-Software User Manual
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HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 7.1
User Guide
Abstract
This document is intended to be used by technical professionals who manage multiple HP BladeSystem enclosures and use HP
Virtual Connect Manager to control network connectivity. HP assumes that you have installed Virtual Connect, are familiar with
the embedded VCM web console, and have read the HP Virtual Connect for c-Class BladeSystem User Guide and understand
its concepts.
HP Part Number: 460924-404
Published: June 2012
Edition: 2
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 7.1 User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installing and configuring VCEM
- 3 Managing VC Domains
- Requirements for adding a VC Domain to a VC Domain Group
- VC Domain tasks
- VCEM licensing
- Preparing to create a VC Domain Group
- Creating a VC Domain Group
- Adding a VC Domain to a VC Domain Group
- Removing a VC Domain from a VC Domain Group
- Working with multienclosure VC Domains
- VC Domain Maintenance
- Replicating VC Domain Group configurations to other VC Domains during VC Domain Maintenance
- Performing VC Domain Maintenance
- Backing up and restoring domain configurations through VC Domain Maintenance
- Changes in VCM that might affect completing VC Domain Maintenance
- Using VLAN capacity
- Working with HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb Fibre Channel Module for c-Class BladeSystem
- Adding or removing remote enclosures from a multienclosure domain in VC Domain Maintenance
- Canceling a VC Domain Maintenance task
- Resynchronizing a VC Domain with Configuration Mismatch
- Using FlexFabric modules
- Adding FlexFabric modules to an existing VCEM managed VC Domain
- Replacing VC Ethernet modules in interconnect bays one or two with FlexFabric modules in an existing VCEM managed VC Domain
- Replacing VC Ethernet in interconnect bays three to eight with FlexFabric in an existing VCEM managed VC Domain
- Replacing FC modules with FlexFabric modules in an existing VCEM managed VC Domain
- Replacing VC Ethernet and FC modules with FlexFabric modules in an existing VCEM managed VC Domain
- Support of the CMS Reconfigure Tool
- 4 Managing VC Domain groups
- Creating a VC Domain Group
- Maintaining a VC Domain from the VC Domain Groups page
- Canceling a VC Domain Group maintenance task
- Upgrading VC Domain Group firmware mode
- Deleting a VC Domain Group
- Adding or removing VC modules to VC Domain Group configuration
- Moving Ethernet networks (VLANs tagged) from one shared uplink to another
- Correlating VCEM operations in Systems Insight Manager and VC logs
- 5 Managing server profiles
- Creating a server profile
- Configuring the target boot LUN
- Configuring multiple networks
- Configuring Network Port Speed
- Deleting a server profile
- Editing a server profile
- Viewing server profile attributes and status
- Using flexible server profile listings
- Recovering server profiles from an unreachable enclosure
- Extending mapped networks
- Verifying the presence of EFI partition data
- Assigning a server profile
- Unassigning a server profile
- Copying a server profile
- Moving a server profile
- Performing a VC Server Profile Failover
- 6 Managing enclosure bay assignments
- 7 Managing MAC and WWN addresses
- MAC Addresses
- Tracking individual MAC addresses
- Creating MAC exclusion ranges
- Deleting MAC exclusion ranges
- Reclaiming external MAC addresses
- Adding a custom MAC address range
- Editing a custom MAC address range
- Removing a custom MAC address range
- WWN Addresses
- Tracking individual WWN addresses
- Creating WWN exclusion ranges
- Address management tasks
- Deleting WWN exclusion ranges
- Reclaiming external WWN addresses
- Adding a custom WWN address range
- Editing a custom WWN address range
- Deleting a custom WWN address ranges
- 8 Working with Logical Serial Numbers
- 9 Tracking VCEM job status
- 10 Upgrading VC firmware after VCEM is managing VC Domains
- 11 Removing an external manager account
- 12 Failover Command Line Interface Usage in VCEM
- 13 Troubleshooting VCEM
- Performing the VC Domain maintenance operations with forward-compatible VC firmware
- General
- Warning dialogs are not translated into Japanese
- VCEM performance
- VC Domain Groups and VC Domain Management
- Jobs
- Server power management
- Server profile operations
- VC Profile Failover
- Profile operations fail, and the error message "An invalid boot LUN was entered. Check the storage arrays for the proper LUN number" appears
- Error popup appears when you select HP predefined ranges during remove VC Domain from group or delete VC Domain Group operations
- Unable to complete or cancel VC Domain maintenance after enabling Expanded VLAN Capacity in VC Domains
- VCM shows an incorrect address for VCEM
- Communicating with the enclosure OA
- MAC, WWN, and Serial Number management
- Duplicate MAC and WWN address assignments
- Unauthorized error when trying to access the VCEM home page
- A job appears with Failed status
- Enclosure has two Onboard Administrators, and one fails
- VCEM is prompting for Onboard Administrator credentials on a configured VC Domain
- VCM does not accept Onboard Administrator credentials
- Unable to add VC Domain to a VC Domain Group
- Unable to add an unconfigured VC Domain to a VC Domain Group
- Cannot manage a VC Domain when VC module failover is taking place
- VC Domain displays Missing External Manager lock status
- VC Domain displays Configuration Mismatch status
- VC Domain displays Connectivity failure status
- Cannot resynchronize VC Domain that is in Configuration Mismatch state
- Operation fails to perform in the VC Domain or VC Domain Group under maintenance status
- Remove from VC Domain Group job is successful but with errors
- Resolving an expired license status
- Resolving database operation errors
- Errors occur while loading VCEM pages
- Failed to execute VCEM operation because VC firmware not supported
- Creating a server profile or adding a VC Domain to a VC Domain Group fails
- Removing VCEM
- Backing up and restoring VCEM
- No HP-predefined ranges for MAC and WWN addresses in VC Domain Groups
- Cannot change the MAC/WWN/Serial Number ranges in VCM when there are server profiles
- VCEM database is inaccessible or irretrievable with no backup, or VCEM file systems are corrupt with no backup
- Enclosure has a hardware failure and must be replaced
- Replacing VC modules
- Failover fails to initiate with an ERROR (30) - Could not initiate failover; nested exception is: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
- VC Profile Failover fails during Onboard Administrator replacement
- VCEM cannot power down ProLiant server model BL465 G1
- After a VC Domain is removed from a VC Domain Group in VCEM, a profile with external-managed status cannot be edited through VCM
- Server profile edit operation fails when target server is powered on
- VC Domain status is "Mismatch Configuration" after cancel a VC Domain Maintenance operation fails
- Server profile job completed successfully but changes have not occurred
- Systems Insight Manager customizations for VCEM have not taken place
- After a server profile failover, some connections defined in the server profile are not functional
- Server profiles are not displaying physical port mapping and allocated bandwidth information
- VCEM page displays "Communication with the Systems Insight Manager server has been lost"
- VC Domain not discovered by Systems Insight Manager
- Create VC Domain Group or Add VC Domain to VC Domain Group operations fail and the message "An invalid boot LUN was entered. Check the storage arrays for the proper LUN number" appears
- Profile move, assign, or failover operations fail and the message "An invalid boot LUN was entered. Check the Storage arrays for the proper LUN number" appears
- 14 Support and other resources
- Glossary
- Index