You are demonstrating the HP D6000 enclosures for HP BladeSystem to a customer who has existing blade enclosures and requires high-density, low-cost external zoned storage. Which software do you use…

Virtual Connect Manager (VCM) manages network (Ethernet and Fibre Channel) connectivity for BladeSystem server blades and does not control SAS drive zone assignments.

HP Virtual SAS Manager (VSM) is specifically designed to manage the SAS zoning between the HP D6000 disk enclosure and HP BladeSystem server blades. It allows administrators to assign a logical zone of D6000 drive bays to a particular server bay in the c7000 enclosure, enabling direct, low-latency SAS storage access without a separate SAN fabric. This makes it the correct tool for the described high-density, low-cost external zoned storage scenario.

Array Configuration Utility (ACU) is used to configure RAID arrays on HP Smart Array controllers after storage is already presented to a server, not to assign or zone drive bays.

Onboard Administrator (OA) manages enclosure-level hardware such as power, cooling, and bay configuration but does not perform SAS zoning of external D6000 storage.