HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 7.0 Release Notes

Managing VC Domains with Extended VLAN capacity enabled
VCEM 7.0 is able to manage VC Domains with VLAN capacity enabled.
CAUTION: Virtual Connect Manager 3.30 does not allow you to easily revert back from Expanded
VLAN capacity mode to Legacy capacity mode. To revert back to Legacy capacity mode, you must
delete the VC Domain in Virtual Connect Manager and then recreate it.
Using Expanded VLAN capacity with the Complete VC Domain Maintenance operation
Before applying Expanded VLAN capacity to a VC Domain 3.3x during Maintenance Mode, make
sure the VC Domain Group that the VC Domain belongs to is running firmware mode 3.3x or later.
If you change a VC Domain 3.3x to Expanded VLAN Capacity and the Virtual Connect Domain
Group firmware mode is lower than 3.3x, the Complete VC Domain Maintenance mode operation
fails, because VCEM detects that Expanded VLAN capacity is not supported by other VC domains
with older firmware. The VC Domain displays the Under maintenance icon and VCEM is unable
to complete or cancel the maintenance operation.
To resolve this:
1. Remove the VC Domain from the VC Domain Group.
2. Delete the VC Domain configuration.
3. Add the VC Domain to the VC Domain Group again.
Using Expanded VLAN capacity with the Cancel VC Domain Maintenance operation
Cancelling maintenance mode in VCEM will not revert the Expanded VLAN capacity configuration
back to Legacy capacity mode.
If you enable Maintenance Mode, change Legacy capacity to Expanded VLAN capacity, and then
click Cancel VC Domain Maintenance, VCEM cannot revert back to Legacy capacity mode in the
VC Domain. Instead, the VC Domain displays the “Under maintenance” icon and VCEM fails to
complete or cancel the maintenance operation. To resolve this, see the procedure to delete the
domain in “Using Expanded VLAN capacity with the Complete VC Domain Maintenance operation”
(page 6).
Known Problems
Assigning a profile to a server with two FlexNIC ports on the same physical NIC
VCEM does not report an error or warning message when assigning a profile to a server with two
FlexNIC ports on the same physical NIC. To avoid this situation, see the server profile details in
the VCM GUI to verify the results of the changes you have made and ensure that you do not have
a misconfiguration.
Changes to the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager online help
The following changes are included in the VCEM 7.0 online help:
• The Export server profile feature has been changed to Move server profile.
• Exclusion ranges are created automatically during installation.
• Changes have been made to Transferring Managed VC domains from one VCEM instance to
another.
• Changes have been made to Transforming multiple VCEM standalone instances into a single
VCEM instance.
• Name, Shared Uplink Set, and VLAN ID filters are available for all VC Domain Group firmware
modes.
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