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Page 1: ...HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager User Guide HP Part Number 460924 006 Published January 2010 Sixth Edition ...

Page 2: ... contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein Acknowledgments Microsoft Windows Windows Serve...

Page 3: ...that must be disabled in a VC Domain to be part of the VC Domain Group with Virtual Connect firmware 2 1x 26 Virtual Connect 2 1x features that must be disabled in a VC Domain to be part of the VC Domain Group with Virtual Connect firmware 2 0x 28 VC Domain tasks 30 Licensing an enclosure for VCEM 30 Creating a VC Domain Group 31 Adding a VC Domain to a VC Domain Group 32 Removing a VC Domain from...

Page 4: ...tions for VC Profile Failover 59 Designating spare bays 59 Initiating VC Profile Failover through the VCEM CLI 59 Initiating VC Profile Failover through the VCEM GUI 59 Initiating VC Profile Failover using HP SIM Automatic Event Handling 59 6 Managing bays 61 Bays 61 Powering down a bay 62 Assigning a profile to a bay 63 Unassigning a profile from a bay 63 Designating spare bays 64 Performing a VC...

Page 5: ...s 87 VCEM is prompting for Onboard Administrator credentials on a configured VC Domain 87 Virtual Connect Manager does not accept Onboard Administrator credentials 87 Unable to add VC Domain to a VC Domain Group 88 Unable to add an unconfigured VC Domain to a VC Domain Group 88 Cannot access VC Domain from Virtual Connect Manager after a data migration has been performed 89 Cannot manage a VC Doma...

Page 6: ...figuration after cancel VC Domain Maintenance operation fails 98 Server profile job completed with success but changes have not occurred 98 VCEM getting started online help screen does not appear automatically at HP SIM login 99 HP SIM customizations for VCEM have not taken place 99 After a server profile failover some connections defined in the server profile are not functional 100 Server profile...

Page 7: ...0 Fibre Channel port speed set to 8Gb 30 3 1 1 Valid configuration of Ethernet and Fibre Channel Virtual Connect modules 35 3 12 VC Domain Group with VC Domains that have different numbers of enclosures 36 4 1 VC Domain Groups 43 5 1 Profiles page 51 5 2 Server VLAN tag to vNet Mappings window 54 5 3 Copying a profile using the Copy from button 55 5 4 Force same VLAN mappings as Shared Uplink Sets...

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Page 9: ... 40 460924 005 April 2009 1 30 460924 004 January 2009 1 20 460924 003 April 2008 1 10 460924 002 November 2007 1 00 460924 001 Related documents In addition to this guide the following resources are available VCEM website at http www hp com go vcem HP Insight Software Quick Installation Guider HP Insight Software Support Matrix HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager Release Notes For more informat...

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Page 11: ...ilities delivered with HP Insight Dynamics software For more information on VCEM see http www hp com go vcem Key features and benefits VCEM delivers the following key features and benefits Key features Single intuitive console to control up to 250 VC Domains 1000 BladeSystem enclosures and 16 000 servers when used with Virtual Connect Ethernet multi enclosure domains Central repository supports 12...

Page 12: ...Insight Software media 6 0 or as a download at http www hp com go vcem The current version number represents alignment and compatibility with other products delivered on HP Insight Software media 6 0 Platform support VCEM is supported on most HP BladeSystem c Class hardware storage software and third party operating platforms For a full list of supported platforms and components see the HP Insight...

Page 13: ...irtual Connect A Virtual Connect server profile is a logical grouping of server connection attributes that can be assigned to any bay in a BladeSystem enclosure also called a VC Domain When assigned to an enclosure bay the server in that bay assumes the attributes of the profile which can include MAC addresses for all NICs WWNs for all Host Bus Adapters HBAs Fibre Channel SAN boot parameters Logic...

Page 14: ...nect for c Class BladeSystem User Guide VCEM operations VCEM aggregates Virtual Connect technology with a single console that aggregates the management and control of multiple VC Domains into a single console This intuitive solution delivers advanced Virtual Connect management that leverages and integrates with other HP management tools including HP SIM Virtual Connect hardware and the Onboard Adm...

Page 15: ...om http www hp com go insightcontrol 3 Open the VCEM console and then discover all existing VC Domains 4 From the list of discovered domains select which ones you want to manage using VCEM 5 Apply a single VCEM license to each VC Domain to be managed A VCEM license enables operations across all bays in an enclosure for the life of the enclosure 6 From the VCEM console create one or more VC Domain ...

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Page 17: ...o a new and different CMS or are moving to a 64 bit CMS then you might need to migrate your data by using the HP SIM data migration tool If you are upgrading to a new version of VCEM on the same CMS data migration with the HP SIM data migration tool is not necessary For more information see the HP Systems Insight Manager Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows To install VCEM fo...

Page 18: ...k the Home tab In a stand alone VCEM installation to return to the Home page click the Home link on the upper right hand corner of the screen b Click the World Wide Names hyperlink c To create a custom range click Add custom The WWN range used by the VCEM domain must be unique within the environment HP provides a set of predefined ranges that are reserved for use by Virtual Connect and VCEM and do...

Page 19: ...VCEM home page The following screenshot shows the VCEM home page Figure 2 1 VCEM home page VCEM home page 19 ...

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Page 21: ...ription Item Describes VC Domain status Status Identifies the VC Domain name VC Domain Name Identifies the domain IP address for the primary VC Ethernet module VC Manager Identifies the enclosure name Enclosure Identifies the VC Domain Group name if any VC Domain Group The following table lists and describes VC Domain status icons and descriptions Description Icon Status The VC Domain enclosures h...

Page 22: ...for domain network and storage changes through Virtual Connect Manager After completing the domain network and storage changes confirm the new VC Domain configuration in VCEM VCEM operations related to this VC Domain or its VC Domain Group such as create profile move profile profile failover and so on are blocked while the VC Domain is under maintenance Under maintenance NOTE For information on ho...

Page 23: ...er profiles within the VC Domain must be defined in VCEM before adding the domain to the VC Domain Group A VC Domain containing server profiles with addresses allocated as HP predefined range type can be added to a VC Domain Group with an VCEM predefined or a user defined range type An unconfigured VC Domain without server profiles has no range type restrictions when adding in a VC Domain to a VC ...

Page 24: ... Fabrics uplinks For each single network uplink Network name Smart link Private Network Enable VLAN Tunneling State Network port location Speed duplex mode Connection mode Preferred Link Connection Preferred Link Connection Speed Maximum Link Connection Maximum Link Connection Speed Number of networks configured in the VC Domain For each shared network uplink Uplink set name Network port location ...

Page 25: ...rmware 2 1x VC firmware 2 3x VC Domain Group Yes Yes Yes VC Domain firmware 2 3x Yes Yes No VC Domain firmware 2 1x Yes No No VC Domain firmware 2 0x Virtual Connect 2 3x features must be disabled for it to be in the same group as Virtual Connect 2 1x or 2 0x Virtual Connect 2 1x features must be disabled for it to be in the same group as Virtual Connect 2 0x NOTE If you have a VC Domain Group 2 0...

Page 26: ... 3 2 Enhanced SNMP configuration Do not configure the VC Domain using the enhanced SNMP configuration If necessary disable the enhanced SNMP configuration by following these steps 1 Do not configure more than five SNMP trap destinations 2 Verify that all SNMP trap destinations follow these rules a The Destination Name must be in the following format IP Address of the SNMP Trap Destination _ Commun...

Page 27: ...h From the Add a SNMP Trap Destination page click Advanced click More and then select either of the following On the VC Enet Traps box select Other as shown in the following figure On the VC FC Traps box select Other Figure 3 5 Selecting trap categories f To disable Virtual Connect Manager traps from the Add a SNMP Trap Destination page click Advanced and then click More The right side must be emp...

Page 28: ...k configuration speed when defining a SAN Fabric for a HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb 20 Port Fibre Channel Module Figure 3 7 Select any value other than 8Gb as uplink and downlink configuration speeds Select any value other than 8Gb as the downlink configuration speed when assigning a SAN Fabric for a HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb 20 Port Fibre Channel Module Virtual Connect 2 1x features that must be disable...

Page 29: ... HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24 Port FC Module in the VC Domain Figure 3 9 Virtual Connect 8Gb 24 Port FC Module Fibre Channel Port Speed cannot be set to 8Gb for HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24 Port FC Module Select any value other than 8Gb as the configuration speed for HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24 Port FC Module VC Domains 29 ...

Page 30: ...anaged For licensing information see the VCEM QuickSpecs at http www hp com go vcem To enable a VC Domain license 1 From VC Domain page select the VC Domain and then click License The License Enclosure page appears 2 Click Add Key 3 Enter the license key string and then click OK If the license key is valid then it is added to HP SIM 4 The License Enclosure page reappears displaying the number of a...

Page 31: ... 4 In a multienclosure VC Domain if there are mixed HP Virtual Connect 4Gb FC modules and HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24 port FC modules in the same IO bay from different enclosures For example 4Gb FC modules in the local enclosure but 8Gb FC modules in the remote enclosures To create a VC Domain Group from the VC Domains page select the VC Domains 1 Click New VC Domain Group Optional If the enclosures...

Page 32: ...Group are permitted VCEM Domain Group Operator This role enables you to manage VC Domains and server profiles within one or more specific VC Domain Groups All operations within the chosen VC Domain Group are permitted VCEM Domain Group Administrator This role provides access to all VCEM operations and is formerly known as VCEM Full Access VCEM Administrator Adding a VC Domain to a VC Domain Group ...

Page 33: ...onnect Module is not configured 6 Optional In some cases you might want to overwrite the existing VC Domain configuration for selected VC Domains To enable this action select Existing VC Domain configuration settings for selected VC Domain s without server profiles will be overwritten by selected base VC Domain configuration defined for the VC Domain Group In this case VCEM validates that the sele...

Page 34: ...is a hexadecimal digit 0 F and cannot exceed 12 characters The VC Domain configuration applies this MAC address range after being removed from VCEM control b Enter the WWN address range To use an HP predefined WWN range from the WWN Range section select the Use HP Pre Defined range box and then select a range from the list You can also unselect the Use HP Pre Defined range box and then enter the s...

Page 35: ...ains Ethernet uplink ports Figure 3 1 1 Valid configuration of Ethernet and Fibre Channel Virtual Connect modules As in earlier versions of VCEM all VC Domains within a VC Domain Group must have the same hardware configuration VCEM enables each enclosure within a VC Domain with multiple enclosures to have a different Virtual Connect Ethernet module configuration but it requires the same Virtual Co...

Page 36: ...ent number of enclosures in the same VC Domain Group For example you can configure a group with two VC Domains if one VC Domain has two enclosures and the other VC Domain has four enclosures You can perform this configuration provided that the base configurations of both VC domains are equal IMPORTANT When configuring the VC Domain you must add the remote enclosures in the correct order Virtual Co...

Page 37: ... during VC Domain Maintenance include Monitoring network ports Changing network configurations Some of the useful storage level operations enabled during VC Domain Maintenance include changing storage configuration VCEM detects the presence of logical server managers or upper level managers When performing selected tasks a prompt dialog message appears and explains the impact of performing that ta...

Page 38: ...example BL460c BL480c Ethernet settings MAC Cache Failover Enable Fast MAC Cache Failover MAC Refresh Interval IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol Snooping Enable IGMP Snooping IGMP Idle Timeout Interval Server VLAN Tagging Support Tunnel VLAN Taggings or Map VLAN Taggings Force server connection setting Multiple Network Speed Settings Preferred Link Connection Preferred Link Connection Speed ...

Page 39: ... changes click Make changes via VC Manager Virtual Connect Manager web interface appears in a separate browser window The Under Maintenance status indicates that the VC Domain is temporarily unlocked for domain network and storage changes 4 Using Virtual Connect Manager log in with full user rights at Virtual Connect Manager perform the necessary changes and save the changes VCEM blocks all operat...

Page 40: ...rk and storage changes 5 Using Virtual Connect Manager a Log in with full user rights at Virtual Connect Manager b Perform the domain backup by selecting Domain Settings Domain Configuration selecting the Backup Restore tab c Click Backup configuration Wait until backup process completes 6 Close the Virtual Connect Manager web browser and return to the VC Domain Maintenance page 7 Click Complete V...

Page 41: ...ystem VCEM cannot manage a VC Domain having one or more FC modules in an Incompatible state The FC module can become incompatible in the following situations An HP Virtual Connect 4Gb FC module replaces an HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24 port FC module An HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24 port FC module replaces a HP Virtual Connect 4Gb FC module If HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24 port FC modules and HP Virtual Conne...

Page 42: ...o the Jobs page and monitor job progress Resynchronizing a VC Domain with Configuration Mismatch Resynchronize a VC Domain is a useful way to force VCEM to verify that the VC Domain is still compatible with VC Domain Group configuration without removing and adding that VC Domain to a VC Domain Group The VC Domain configuration must comply with the same requirements when you add a VC Domain into a ...

Page 43: ...files within a single VC Domain or between any VC Domains within a VC Domain Group IMPORTANT When a VC Domain is imported into VCEM and managed as part of a VC Domain Group all unassigned server profiles associated with the VC Domain become part of the VC Domain Group Any unassigned server profiles created through VCEM become part of the VC Domain Group To access the VC Domain Group page in VCEM c...

Page 44: ...en navigate directly to the VC Domain user interface 4 Find and import the necessary remote enclosures in the correct order through Virtual Connect Manager 5 Go to HP SIM and perform a manual discovery on Onboard Administrator IP address of all released VC Domain enclosures VCEM cannot manage a VC Domain that has one or more FC modules in an Incompatible state The FC module can become incompatible...

Page 45: ...e type is VCEM defined user defined or factory default You can only select the user defined option for MAC range type if a MAC custom range is defined 9 From the Select WWN range type list select whether the WWN address range type is VCEM defined user defined or factory default You can only select the user defined option for WWN range type if a WWN custom range is defined NOTE After upgrading from...

Page 46: ... From the VC Domain Group page select the VC Domain Group with status Under Maintenance 2 Click VC Domain Maintenance The VC Domain Group Maintenance page appears 3 Click Cancel The Virtual Connect Enterprise manager is executing the request message appears with a job ID code 4 Click OK to go to the Jobs page and monitor job progress Upgrading VC Domain Group Firmware Mode IMPORTANT VCEM upgrade f...

Page 47: ... message appears and explains the impact of performing that task from outside the logical server manager or upper level manager The following message appears IMPORTANT VCEM has detected you may be using other products such as HP Insight Dynamics VSE Deleting this VC Domain Group will make it and any Server Profiles in this VC Domain Group unmanageable by this upper level manager Type YES to procee...

Page 48: ...lect a range from the list You can also clear the Use Pre Defined range box and then enter the start and end addresses for the WWN range Valid WWN address range is NN NN NN NN NN NN NN NN where N is a hexadecimal digit 0 F and cannot exceed 16 characters The VC Domain configuration applies this WWN address range after being removed from VCEM control c Enter the serial number range To use an HP pre...

Page 49: ...orks VLANs tagged from the shared uplink sets 4 Go back to VCEM and complete VC Domain Maintenance by clicking Complete VC Domain Maintenance 5 Repeat steps 1 and 2 6 In Virtual Connect Manager user interface create Ethernet networks VLANs tagged to any shared uplink set 7 Go back to VCEM and complete VC Domain Maintenance by clicking Complete VC Domain Maintenance Correlating VCEM operations in H...

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Page 51: ...ng one of the following entries in the Filter list All Select this option to display all profiles being managed by VCEM VC Domain Select this option to display all profiles that exist in a specified VC Domain The second list can be used to select a specific VC Domain to use as a filter VC Domain Group Select this option to show all profiles that exist in a VC Domain Group The second list can be us...

Page 52: ...e Server VLAN tagging Add Remove Fibre Channel SAN connections Integrity blade support EFI partition data Ethernet connection port speed configuration Double density blade support Enhanced SNMP configuration Multienclosure VC Domain From the managing profiles screen you can perform the following tasks Create a profile Delete one or more profiles Edit a profile Assign a profile Unassign a profile C...

Page 53: ... for Serial Number select Server Factory Defaults for Serial Number 5 In the Ethernet network connections table select at least two Ethernet networks Network names are optional In a VC Domain it is possible to select Multiple Networks To add more connections click Add Network Connection To remove a connection click the X icon at the right side of the table 6 In the Fibre Channel SAN connections ta...

Page 54: ...709551615 is represented in 16 digit hexadecimal format as ffffffffffffffff or FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF Configuring multiple networks When creating or editing a profile in a VC Domain you can configure multiple networks to use as a same Ethernet connection port 1 In the Ethernet connections table expand the network name menu and select Multiple Networks The Server VLAN tag to vNet Mappings window appears ...

Page 55: ...ng Network Port Speed When creating or editing a profile you can configure the network speed of an Ethernet network connection You can select network speeds of 1Gb 2Gb 4Gb and 8Gb or Auto 1 In the Ethernet connections table select the desired port speed from the Port Speed Setting menu 2 Optional To select the desired port speed for the connection select Custom The Custom Port Speed windows appear...

Page 56: ...roceed with this operation To proceed you must type YES and then click OK VCEM does not proceed if you cut and paste YES into the field When editing server profiles VC Domain Group memberships and server bay assignments are read only To edit a server profile 1 From the Profiles page select the profile to be edited 2 Click Edit The Edit Profile information appears below the profile table 3 Enter ch...

Page 57: ...link or select a profile to assign and then click Assign The Profile Assignment page appears 3 Select an available server bay to which the profile is assigned 4 Click OK The Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager is executing the request message appears 5 Click OK to go to the Jobs page and monitor job progress Unassigning a profile VCEM detects the presence of logical server managers or upper level m...

Page 58: ...erver 2 Select a new target server 3 Move the VC server profile to the target server 4 Power up the new server VC Profile Failover operations require the source and target servers to be configured to boot from SAN and can be initiated from the VCEM graphical user interface GUI as a one button operation or from a command line interface CLI When used with the automatic event handling functionality i...

Page 59: ...re server 2 Click VC Profile Failover The Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager is executing the request message appears 3 Click OK to go to the Jobs page and monitor job progress Initiating VC Profile Failover using HP SIM Automatic Event Handling The VCEM CLI can be used to automatically trigger VC Profile Failovers using HP SIM automatic event handling A collection of sample failover SNMP traps ex...

Page 60: ...ms 6 Select Run custom CMS tool and then select VCEM Profile Failover by Hostname 7 If there is a specific time the event handler must be active choose a time filter 8 Review the selected events systems and actions for the automatic event handler VC Profile Failovers now occur whenever any designated system generates one of the events within the event collection When an event triggers a VC Profile...

Page 61: ... a specific VC Domain Group to use as a filter The Show more details checkbox enables you to see physical information such as power state UID LED state and the blade model inside each bay in the list The option is enabled and selected by default only when filtering devices bays by VC Domain After selecting the options in the filter click Filter Figure 6 1 Bays page The following table lists the co...

Page 62: ...located Enclosure Name Icon that indicates the Unite Identifier UID state on off or not available UID Icon that indicates the server power status Power Status Control Factory serial number for physical server Logical Serial Number designated by server profile Serial Number Serial Number Logical Factory UUID for physical server Logical UUID designated by server profile UUID UUID Logical Model of se...

Page 63: ...to shut down physical bay instead of remotely Figure 6 3 Bay status with tab and hold Assigning a profile to a bay You can assign a profile to a bay only if the bay is not already associated with a server profile and if the server is powered down To assign a profile to a bay 1 Click the Bays tab 2 Optional From the Filter list select VC Domain or VC Domain Group and click Filter 3 Select the bay 4...

Page 64: ...file Failover operations require the source and target servers to be configured to boot from SAN and can be initiated from the VCEM graphical user interface GUI as a one button operation or from a command line interface CLI When used with the automatic event handling functionality in HP SIM VC Profile Failover operations can be automatically triggered based user defined events When selecting a tar...

Page 65: ... appears 4 Click OK to go to the Jobs page and monitor job progress Initiating VC Profile Failover using HP SIM Automatic Event Handling The VCEM CLI can be used to automatically trigger VC Profile Failovers using HP SIM automatic event handling A collection of sample failover SNMP traps exists in the Profile Failover Trigger Events collection under VCEM Events in the VCEM user interface VCEM has ...

Page 66: ...nt handler must if one of the selected systems generates an event Select Run custom CMS tool and then select VCEM Profile Failover by Hostname 7 If there is a specific time the event handler must be active choose a time filter 8 Review the selected events systems and actions for the automatic event handler VC Profile Failovers will now occur whenever any of the designated systems generate one of t...

Page 67: ...nd never appears as factory default on any hardware There are 131 072 unique addresses from which VCEM automatically assigns to profiles on demand User defined MAC address range To prevent potential conflict with other hardware MAC addresses in the environment you can use a subrange of MAC addresses reserved by the IEEE for locally administered MAC addresses Ensure that the range does not conflict...

Page 68: ...er the address range to exclude Deleting MAC exclusion ranges 1 From the VCEM home page under the Administration heading click the MAC addresses hyperlink 2 From the Select ranges to configure list select MAC 3 Select a MAC address range The exclusion range must be contained within the address range to which the exclusion range belongs 4 Select a MAC exclusion range 5 Click Delete You are prompted...

Page 69: ...address range 4 Click Edit 5 Edit the custom MAC address range as necessary 6 Click OK Removing custom MAC address ranges NOTE Removing a custom MAC address range also removes its defined exclusion ranges You must verify there are no addresses already in use for this range To remove custom MAC address ranges 1 From the Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager home page under the Administration heading c...

Page 70: ...rently used by a server profile in VCEM In use Addresses used by server profiles in a VC Domain that has been released back to Virtual Connect Manager and no longer managed by VCEM External Address Addresses that reside in a VCEM Exclusion range list VCEM will not allocate any address that is marked as excluded Excluded Addresses Creating WWN exclusion ranges VCEM requires that you define exclusio...

Page 71: ...lect a WWN address range The exclusion range must be contained within the address range to which the exclusion range belongs 4 Click Delete You are prompted to confirm your choice IMPORTANT If the exclusion range includes external addresses these external addresses remain external even if the exclusion range is removed To avoid conflicts ensure all addresses within this range are not being used by...

Page 72: ... outside of VCEM and will not be used by VCEM To change the status of an address from External to Free use the Reclaim External button Before freeing an address verify that the address is no longer used by a VC Domain outside of VCEM To reclaim WWN addresses 1 From the Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager home page under the Administration heading click the World Wide Names hyperlink 2 From the Sele...

Page 73: ...n create one custom range 1 From the VCEM home page under the Administration heading click the World Wide Names hyperlink 2 From the Select ranges to configure link select WWN 3 Select a WWN address range 4 Click Edit 5 Edit the WWN address range as necessary Valid WWN ranges cannot contain all 0s or all Fs and cannot have an F within either of the first two octets 6 Click OK Deleting custom WWN a...

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Page 75: ...Manager before having a VC Domain imported into VCEM A logical serial number prefaced by VCY indicates that the logical serial number was created by VCEM when it created a server profile From the VCEM home page click the Logical Serial Numbers hyperlink The logical serial number page appears Figure 8 1 Logical serial number page Identifying logical serial number values The following table lists an...

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Page 77: ...dentifies the job number with the task performed Job ID Describes the job performed or to be performed Task Provides job status Status Describes the progress of the current job Progress Identifies the person who performed the function that created the job User Name Identifies job start time Start Time Identifies the time when the job was completed if the job is not complete this field is blank End...

Page 78: ...t the jobs to be deleted and then click Delete Reviewing job details To review the details of a particular job click the hyperlink of the appropriate job name The Job Details window appears Deleting jobs To delete a particular job or multiple jobs click Delete Only pending failed or completed jobs can be deleted You cannot delete a running job 78 Tracking VCEM job status ...

Page 79: ... whether any other components must be updated before upgrading the VC firmware by reviewing the Virtual Connect firmware documentation The VC firmware might have dependencies on specific versions of the following items HP BladeSystem c Class Onboard Administrator HP ProLiant c Class Server BIOS System ROM HP Integrity c Class Server EFI HP c Class Embedded NICs HP c Class Server Mezzanine Cards HP...

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Page 81: ...t Manager and the credential store from VCEM Remove the VC Domain from the VC Domain Group Secondary method Uses the Virtual Connect Manager command line interface to remove the account from the Virtual Connect Manager If the preferred method is not possible then the Virtual Connect Manager supports command line interfaces that allow the external manager account to be deleted from the Virtual Conn...

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Page 83: ...n Bay Server VC Profile Failover has been initiated BayServerHostname VC Profile Failover Job Number is N Performing VC Profile Failover on the specified VC Domain Bay Server VC Profile Failover has been initiated BayServerIPAddress VC Profile Failover Job Number is N If the CLI Failover command for any of these three options has failed the exit code is some value greater than zero and the associa...

Page 84: ...zero and the associated error message appears The following shows some output examples Listing details for specified VCEM Job ERROR 63 Specified VCEM Job Number is not an integer Listing details for specified VCEM Job ERROR 64 Could not list details for job Internal VCEM Error Code 5014 Internal VCEM Error Message No Job is found Verify that the specified Job ID must be bigger than 0 and valid Sho...

Page 85: ...1 ERROR Invalid command line option 2 ERROR Argument not allowed for this option 3 ERROR Only one required argument allowed for this option 4 ERROR Missing a required argument for this option 5 ERROR Missing operational option 6 ERROR Missing command line option s 7 ERROR Invalid command line argument 8 ERROR Duplicate options not allowed 9 ERROR Option not allowed 10 VCEM CLI User Authorization a...

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Page 87: ... for several reasons For more information about the reason of job failure and how to correct the issue see the job details 1 From the VCEM home page click the Jobs tab 2 Locate the job either by its ID or its name 3 For detailed information about the job and how you can resolve the issue click the task name of this job 4 Optional Job details might appear to be truncated when the appended exceeds 2...

Page 88: ...meets the requirements for adding a VC Domain to a VC Domain Group For more information see Requirements for adding a VC Domain to a VC Domain Group Also a VC Domain might fail to add to the VC Domain Group for the following reasons Network issues Invalid IP address Insufficient credentials permission Another VCEM external manager exists To correct this issue Verify that you can ping from the comm...

Page 89: ...gain VC Domain displays Missing External Manager lock status If the VC Domain displays a status of Missing External Manager lock icon the external manager lock has either been suspended or removed To correct this issue with a VC Domain remove the VC Domain from VC Domain Group break the external manager lock and release these MAC WWN and serial number address ranges as follows 1 Telnet in to the V...

Page 90: ...nd standby Virtual Connect module is taking place 2 Wait a few minutes until the failover completes and then try again 3 Log into the Virtual Connect Manager https VCDomain_IP A status of Active Virtual Connect Manager not at this IP address might appear 4 You must also rediscover the Onboard Administrator related to this VC Domain again by selecting HP SIM menu Options Identify System or Options ...

Page 91: ...er both the displayed address and the hidden address When considering the hidden addresses add 1 to the addresses that are being displayed For example if a profile is using two Ethernet connections with MAC addresses 00 21 5A 9B 00 00 and 00 21 5A 9B 00 02 then the hidden addresses will be 00 21 5A 9B 00 01 and 00 21 5A 9B 00 03 In this example the profile will be using four MAC addresses from 00 ...

Page 92: ...x xxx where xxx xxx xxx xxx is the VC Domain IP address 2 To determine the username of the external manager account from the Virtual Connect Manager command prompt enter show external manager For this example assume the username returned was xyz 3 To disable the account from the Virtual Connect Manager command prompt enter set external manager Username xyz Enabled false If VC firmware is 2 0x perf...

Page 93: ...r more information about supported Virtual Connect firmware see http www hp com go vcem To correct this issue related to the VC firmware version not supported perform the following steps and execute the VCEM operation again Update VC firmware according VC firmware versions supported by VCEM using the Virtual Connect Manager user interface a Access the Virtual Connect Manager user interface b Using...

Page 94: ...ninstall VCEM Select Start All Programs Insight Software Uninstall HP Insight Software NOTE Depending on your operating system the following menu options might slightly vary From the Control Panel Double click Add or Remove Programs 1 2 Click Insight Software 3 Click Remove IMPORTANT The uninstall operation does not remove a VCEM folder from installation directory such as C Program Files HP Virtua...

Page 95: ...easing the VC Domain from VCEM have addresses externally in use by server profiles under VCEM control To correct the issue reset the Virtual Connect Module and make sure you enter MAC and WWN ranges defined as exclusion ranges in VCEM From the Virtual Connect Manager user interface select Tools Reset Virtual Connect Manager VCEM database is inaccessible or irretrievable with no backup or VCEM file...

Page 96: ... is lost including any existing server profiles To resolve this issue 1 From the VCEM home page click the VC Domains tab 2 Select the VC Domain that has an enclosure problem 3 Click Remove from VC Domain Group Wait for the job to complete successfully 4 Connect the new enclosure in the network Verify the network and SAN connections wired to the new enclosure are the same as the failed one 5 From t...

Page 97: ...or might take several minutes to take over The VC Profile Failover operation fails when source or spare bays are associated to an enclosure while the redundant Onboard Administrator is taking place To resolve this issue 1 Wait until Onboard Administrator has failed over Perform an HP SIM discovery to rediscover the new Onboard Administrator IP address If the address is not rediscovered see the HP ...

Page 98: ...in firmware to the latest version 2 Edit the server profile and then set the multiple networks configuration VC Domain status is Mismatch Configuration after cancel VC Domain Maintenance operation fails This situation occurs when the server profiles from a VC Domain managed by VCEM have changed and do not match the existing server profiles in the VCEM database For example restoring an old VC Domai...

Page 99: ...Virtual Connect Manager Wait to be prompted for new Onboard Administrator credentials NOTE You must have domain privileges to log in to Virtual Connect Manager 3 Provide the Onboard Administrator credentials and then follow the Virtual Connect Manager instructions 4 In Virtual Connect Manager restart all servers with server profiles that present a Pending status 5 Verify that the servers are opera...

Page 100: ...cation with the HP SIM server has been lost When VCEM performs a task that requires some time to be completed HP SIM server might detect that the task is taking too long and the Communication with the HP SIM server has been lost message appears This behavior is intermittent but can occur in the following situations When navigating through VCEM pages and requesting multiple operations at the same t...

Page 101: ...s presenting the problem 3 Click Edit 4 In the boot target configurations table change all the target LUN fields to be within the allowed ranges either a three digit decimal between 0 255 or a 16 digit hexadecimal between 0 and FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 5 Click OK 6 Monitor the job progress until it is complete After the operation completes you can perform move assign and failover operations with the serve...

Page 102: ...main with the VC Domain Group configuration click OK 6 Repeat steps 1 and 2 for the VC Domain where the changes were made 7 In the Virtual Connect Manager user interface create the Ethernet networks VLANs tagged in the desired shared uplink set 8 Go back to VCEM and complete VC Domain Maintenance by clicking Complete VC Domain Maintenance 102 Troubleshooting VCEM ...

Page 103: ...when calling for technical support Using your SAID you can also go to the Software Update Manager SUM web page to view your contract online and elect electronic delivery for product updates Warranty HP will replace defective delivery media for a period of 90 days from the date of purchase This warranty applies to VCEM and all Insight Control Management HP Systems Insight Manager and ProLiant Essen...

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Page 105: ...onsists of a backplane that routes power and communication signals and additional hardware for cabling and thermal issues It also hosts the CPU or server power supplies event Information sent to certain users that something in the managed environment has changed Events are generated from SNMP traps and are preconfigured in this release receives a trap when an important event occurs Events are defi...

Page 106: ...rolling an entire c Class rack It offers configuration power and administrative control over the rack and its associated blades Compute Servers blade management processors iLOs network switches depending on the models of switches used and storage components such as SAN or SATA The Onboard Administrator is a single management processor with shared resources to an optional backup twin processor for ...

Page 107: ...ty string or security setting uplink port An external port that is configured within Virtual Connect for use as a connection to external networking equipment Uplink ports are defined within Virtual Connect by the enclosure name interconnect bay containing the module and the part number The port number port ID for uplink ports is lit green uplink port set A set of uplinks that are used together to ...

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Page 109: ...se Manager architectural overview 12 features and benefits 1 1 installation and configuration 17 installing 17 key benefits 1 1 key features 1 1 Logical Serial Numbers 75 managing bays 61 managing MAC and WWN addresses 67 managing server profiles 51 managing VC Domain Groups 43 managing VC Domains 21 operations overview 14 performing post installation configuration tasks 17 platform support 12 pos...

Page 110: ... out 97 HP SIM customizations for VCEM have not taken place 99 job appears with Failed status 87 No HP predefined ranges for MAC and WWN addresses in VC Domain Groups 95 operation fails to perform in the VC Domain or VC Domain Group under maintenance status 91 profile move assign or failover operations fail and the message An invalid boot LUN was entered Check the Storage arrays for the proper LUN...

Page 111: ...nance task 41 creating a VC Domain Group 31 licensing an enclosure for VCEM 30 removing a VC Domain from a VC Domain Group 33 requirements for adding a VC Domain to a VC Domain Group 22 VC Domain in VC Domain Maintenance 36 VC Domain tasks 30 VC Profile Failover CLI exit and error codes 85 list details for specified VCEM job 83 performing VC profile failover on specified VC Domain bay server 83 sh...

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