HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager v6.0

HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) centralizes connection management and workload mobility for HP BladeSystem server blades that use Virtual Connect to access to LANs and SANs, helping organizations increase productivity, respond faster to workload and infrastructure changes, and reduce operating costs.

Built on the Virtual Connect architecture integrated into every BladeSystem c-Class enclosure, VCEM provides a central console to administer LAN and SAN address assignments, perform group-based configuration management and execute the rapid deployment, movement and failover of server connections and workloads for 250 Virtual Connect domains (up to 1,000 BladeSystem enclosures and 16,000 blade servers).

What's new

• Support for HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 20-Port Fibre Channel module for BladeSystem c-Class and Virtual Connect firmware v2.30
• Includes dedicated VCEM 128K address ranges for MAC and World Wide Name assignments, for a total of 256K supported network addresses per VCEM console
• Introduces role-based access and control for Virtual Connect domain groups
• Number of supported Virtual Connect domains increased to 250 (1,000 BladeSystem c-Class enclosures and 16,000 servers when used with Virtual Connect multi enclosure domain configurations)
• Native installation and operations with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 64-bit
• Streamlined delivery with HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Enterprise Edition for c7000. New SKU combines 2 x HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 modules and with a single VCEM license. Part number - 591973-B21

Ideal environment

Datacenters with multiple BladeSystem enclosures

• Centralize connectivity and workload management for thousands of servers
• Simplify the deployment of new blade enclosures and servers, and reduce configuration errors
• Increase infrastructure consistency, IT productivity and respond faster to changing workload and business demands
• Scalable to meet the growing needs of small and large Virtual Connect environments
• Reduce time and costs to deploy and maintain server connectivity to production networks

Organizations that need dynamic infrastructure management

• Add, modify and failover server connections and their workloads in minutes without impacting LANs and SANs
• Rapidly repurpose server resources to meet changing business demands and application priorities
• Simplify the migration of severs from test to production

Organizations with multiple locations

• Centralise server connection management to LANs and SANs
• Simplify the deployment of new blade enclosures and servers
• Limit management overheads and configuration errors
• Reduce travel, response times and operating costs