ISS Technology Update, Volume 7 Number 2 - Newsletter

ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 2

Powerful features

VCEM offers a full range of data center management capabilities that make it a natural choice for enterprise installations:

• Allows management of up to 100 c-Class enclosures from a single console (up to 1600 server blades)

• Works at wire speed without performance degradation

• Increases operational automation and IT productivity to meet changing workload demands

• Central resource pool for LAN and SAN address administration that eliminates conflicts

• Grouping capabilities increase infrastructure consistently and enable the rapid deployment and movement of server

connection profiles across the data center

• Cost-effective blade server recovery without the need for dedicated redundant server hardware

• Enables more efficient planned systems maintenance and simplified server workload repurposing

• Scalable to meet growing requirements across single and multiple data centers

• Add, move, and recover server workloads across the data center in minutes, instead of hours, days, or weeks

• Reduces cost of deployment and server lifecycle maintenance

Centralized management

VCEM provides a central, intuitive console that allows system administrators to remotely manage and control infrastructure

resources with the following capabilities:

• Apply server connection profiles to one or many remote locations

• No need to send specialists on site to add new servers, replace problematic ones, or change LAN and SAN assignments

• Pre-design and configure an enclosure prior to installation

• Central resource pool for LAN and SAN addresses provides easy assignment and tracking and eliminates conflicts

What’s coming

Future versions of VCEM will provide expanded capabilities to further automate infrastructure management and server

availability to defined service levels and operating criteria.

Additional resources

For additional information on the topics discussed in this article, visit the following links:

Resource URL

HP Virtual Connect technology

brief

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00814156/c00814156.pdf

HP Virtual Connect architecture http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/459411-0-0-0-

121.html?jumpid=go/bladesystem/virtualconnect

HP Virtual Connect Enterprise

Manager overview

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/ethernet/vcem/index.html

HP Virtual Connect quick specs http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12860_div/12860_div.pdf