In a lot of company initiatives that look to increase business goals for services, revenue, and efficiency, the "Request for Proposal" often focuses on what hardware and software characteristics are needed to meet those goals. And most of those goals tend to be capital acquisition costs and not operational costs. "Buyer's Remorse" sets in when the shiny new widget arrives and now needs to make day-to-day business impact for the company. It is often when this day arrives and you realize that keeping the hardware, software, and applications functioning that "Ease of Use", "Troubleshooting" and "Change Management" are the key aspects that determine the successful short term and long term viability of what was purchased.
HP Virtual Connect is no different from other server interconnect technologies in that this day comes for our Virtual Connect customers as well. What is vastly different is the smile on our Virtual Connect customer's faces when they realize all the capabilities that HP has put it the VC product and also the overall management capabilities that we have engineered into it as well with Virtual Connect Manager (VCM) and Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM).
We have produced a whitepaper on VC Management and how those management packages work to efficiently keep a company infrastructure up and running. We focus on VC Manager (VCM) and the underlying HP technologies that allow you to manage servers and network connection configuration as well as their deployment, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and security. We also touch on non-VC management tools that integrate with VC to provide broader management options.
HP provides technologies and tools for efficiently managing Virtual Connect (VC) environments of all sizes. HP Virtual Connect Manager (VCM) is a software component embedded within Virtual Connect Ethernet modules. It is the core application for configuring and managing single and multi-enclosure Virtual Connect (VC) domain environments. Access to VCM occurs over the same Ethernet connection used to access the Onboard Administrator in BladeSystem c-Class enclosures and server blade iLO connections.
HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) is a software application that manages up to 250 VC domains, up to 1000 enclosures and 16,000 blade servers. VCEM allows you to create domain groups that use a master configuration profile for multiple VC domains connected to the same networks. VCEM is part of the HP Insight Software suite of applications that also includes Systems Insight Manager, Matrix Operating Environment, and Insight Control.
To learn more on how HP can help you configure, monitor, troubleshoot and maintain security within a VC environment read the Efficiently managing Virtual Connect environments HP White Paper.
