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Figure 7: HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager Enclosure View One server blade in the enclosure is part of a performance sensitive, mission-critical Oracle RAC database. Not finding an obvious cause for the excessive temperature, the administrator decides to use an available server blade in another enclosure to add a server to the database cluster to ensure adequate performance and redundancy while the administrator investigates the problem. This RAC cluster is part of a horizontally scalable application and was configured with additional database instances, which are turned off during normal operations. The additional database instances were created, configured, and tested in advance on servers configured using Virtual Connect server blade profiles, specifying LAN and SAN connectivity for each server blade. Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager The use of VCEM server connection profiles makes it easy for you to move or repurpose servers to meet changing workloads, to recover failed server hardware to a spare server, or perform more efficient systems maintenance. The VCEM application (Figure 8) builds on underlying HP SIM services, Virtual Connect hardware, and the Onboard Administrator (OA) in each enclosure to discover and centrally manage multiple BladeSystem enclosures that use Virtual Connect. These enclosures are referred to as Virtual Connect Domains. VCEM also provides a central database to control MAC and WWN assignments for LANs and SANs, which eliminates potential address conflicts. 16