HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 6.00 Release Notes

• VCEM cannot manage a VC Domain that configures a Shared Uplink Set or Ethernet Network with the
following:
• Connection mode set to Failover
• More than one port with Port Role value set to Primary or no Port Role set to Primary
To resolve the issue, access Virtual Connect Manager and set one port to be the primary.
• VCEM cannot manage a VC Domain that configures an Ethernet Uplink Port with a Speed/Duplex
value as Disabled. VCEM always replicates the VC Domain configuration with Speed/Duplex set to
Auto.
However, VCEM does not prevent you from adding such VC Domain to a VC Domain Group.
• VCEM fails to add a VC Domain that configures an Ethernet Uplink Port with a Speed/Duplex value
as Disabled to the same VC Domain Group to which it previously belonged.
To resolve the issue, perform the following steps after the Add to VC Domain Group job failure:
1. Go to the Virtual Connect Manager user interface.
2. Select values for the Speed/Duplex of Ethernet Uplink Ports according to VC Domain Group Ethernet
Uplink Port values.
3. Go to VCEM and re-add the VC Domain to the same VC Domain Group.
• VCEM cannot create a VC Domain Group or add a VC Domain to a VC Domain Group when a backup
VC module is discovered or if a failover of a VC module occurred in a redundancy environment. The
following error message appears:
The VC Domain [<VC Domain Name>] cannot be managed by VCEM. A possible
cause is that the current state of the VC Domain is unknown. Verify HP
Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is referencing the primary VC Module. If
not, run HP SIM discovery to update the reference.
To resolve this issue, perform a rediscovery on the Onboard Administrator IP address associated with
the VC Module and perform the VCEM operation again.
MAC, WWN, and Serial Number management
You must verify that VC Domains within a network have unique MAC addresses, WWN addresses, and
Serial Numbers. Adding a VC Domain to a VC Domain Group or creating a VC Domain Group does not
verify that the profiles in a VC Domain use MAC or WWN addresses allocated in the VCEM external address
pool. You can overwrite the external addresses to become in use status. To prevent external addresses from
use in VCEM, add the addresses to the exclusion addresses pool. If you plan to add the VC Domain back
to VCEM, then you must also remove these addresses from the exclusion addresses pool.
Jobs
▲ System performance can slow down on the Jobs page when the number of jobs exceeds 20,000. To
maximize system performance, delete old jobs before the total number reaches this limit.
Server power management
▲ VCEM might not correctly present the power state of a server when the server is powered off using VC
Manager.
Server profile operations
• VCEM profile operations for Integrity server blades requires VC Domain versions 2.0x or later.
• To create profiles for Integrity server blades that boot from SAN, you must manually configure the SAN
boot entries in the blade server EFI console.
• If the server profile has Flex-10 connections enabled, and server blade NICs (onboard or mezzanine
card) are connected to HP 10/10Gb-F Virtual Connect Ethernet Module, Virtual Connect requires you
to power off the server blade to perform any server profile operation.
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