VCEM Profile Failover and Profile Moves White Paper

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Profile failover example
An example of profile failover follows. The infrastructure depicted in Figure 1 includes:
• One VC Domain Group with two HP BladeSystem enclosures.
• Virtual Connect with Ethernet and SAN interconnects.
•  Red box represents a production server blade (left enclosure).
•  Blue box represents a spare server blade (right enclosure).
• Server profile that contains the MAC and WWN assignments. You can assign a
profile to a bay or leave it unassigned.
Figure 1: VCEM profile failover example
The following describes the profile failover operation shown in Figure 1.
• A workload, a SAN-boot system drive containing an operating system, or an application
and the application’s data, is running on the production server (red box). There is a need
to move the workload to another server. For example, there is a hardware problem or
there is server maintenance scheduled.
• A profile failover on the production server is initiated (red box). As a result VCEM executes
the following automated actions:
• The production server is powered off (red box).
• Spare server blade (blue box) is selected.