HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) simplifies the management of HP BladeSystem environments that use Virtual Connect to control LAN and SAN connectivity (Virtual Connect domains), helping organizations increase productivity, respond faster to changing workload demands, and reduce operating costs.
Using a choice of management tools including the built-in HP Virtual Connect Manager for small configurations or the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager for larger environments, administrators can define a server connection profile for each server bay before a server is installed.
Built on the Virtual Connect and Onboard Administrator architectures integrated into every BladeSystem c-Class enclosure, VCEM provides a central console to perform efficient administration of LAN and SAN addresses, group-based configuration management, plus the rapid assignment, movement and failover of server-to-network connections and their workloads for 200 Connect domains (up to 800 BladeSystem enclosures and 12,800 blade servers).
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 and HP Insight Orchestration Software.
