About unassigned VCM server profile connections during migration

An unassigned VCM server profile connection is a connection without a specified network or fabric. There are five types of connections within VCM.

  • Ethernet — One or more Ethernet networks assigned to the same server profile connection.

  • FCoE — An FCoE network associated with an uplink set. Ethernet and FCoE networks may share the same uplink set.

  • FCoE FC SAN — An FCoE connection assigned to a SAN fabric. These connections have one or more native Fibre Channel connections to the uplink ports which are part of the SAN fabric. They utilize FlexFabric physical function 2 of the adapter.

  • Native Fibre Channel — A native Fibre Channel adapter connection to a Fibre Channel interconnect.

  • iSCSI — An iSCSI, Ethernet network or unshared iSCSI network that is associated with an uplink set. Ethernet and iSCSI networks may share the same uplink set.

HPE OneView does not support unassigned server profile connections, so the connections are not migrated and cannot be recreated for the migrated server profile. For native Fibre Channel connections, a warning issue appears on the compatibility report. For all other connections, a blocking issue appears on the compatibility report for in-service migrations.

To determine how to resolve unassigned server profile connections depends on the reason for the unassigned connection and the ramifications to the OS configuration if the connection is not migrated.