HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 6.2 User Guide

2. (Optional) From the Filter list, select VC Domain or VC Domain Group.
3. Select the bay for which you want to unassign a server profile.
4. Click Unassign server profile. You are prompted to confirm the unassignment.
5. Click OK. The Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager is executing the request
message appears.
6. Click OK to go to the Jobs page and monitor job progress.
Designating spare bays
1. Select one or more Spares check box for bays that do not have a server profile applied. A
asterisk symbol is displayed to indicate that the spares marked with a symbol must be
confirmed.
2. To confirm the spare, click Apply Spares.
You can initiate VC Server Profile Failover either through the command line interpreter (CLI) or
through the VCEM graphical user interface (GUI).
Designate spares according to the service level needs and the blade models being used. For
example, if a data center is using three blade models in the environment, designate a spare for
each of the three blade model types. These designated spares can be any systems that do not
already have a server profile assigned within the same VC Domain Group.
Performing a VC Server Profile Failover
Virtual Connect Server Profile Failover is a VCEM feature that enables the automated movement
of VC server profiles and associated network connections to customer-defined spare servers in a
VC Domain Group. The manual movement of a VC server profile requires the following steps to
complete the operation, but VC Server Profile Failover combines these separate steps into one
seamless task:
1. Power down the original or source server.
2. Select a new target server.
3. Move the VC server profile to the target server.
4. Power up the new server.
VC Server Profile Failover operations require the source and target servers to be configured to
boot-from-SAN, and can be initiated from the VCEM graphical user interface (GUI) as a one-button
operation or from a command line interface (CLI). When used with the automatic event handling
functionality in Systems Insight Manager, VC Server Profile Failover operations can be automatically
triggered based user-defined events.
When selecting a target server from a pool of defined spare systems, VC Server Profile Failover
automatically chooses the same server model as the source server.
System administrators can use VC Server Profile Failover to perform the rapid and cost effective
recovery of physical servers within the same VC Domain Group with minimal administrator
intervention.
IMPORTANT: When you perform a VC Server Profile Failover, no reference is provided to the
VC Domain from Systems Insight Manager. To access this reference, you must correlate the Systems
Insight Manager and Virtual Connect logs. For more information, see “Correlating VCEM operations
in Systems Insight Manager and Virtual Connect logs” (page 58).
VCEM detects the presence of logical server managers or upper level managers. When performing
this task, a prompt dialog message appears and explains the impact of performing that task from
outside the logical server manager or upper level manager. The following message appears:
IMPORTANT: VCEM has detected you may be using other products, such as
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE. Performing a failover of a Server Profile
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