[cdelgadop]

Hi

I think is a good design that uses all the Virtualization resources. Only problem is: what happens if one of the VIOS just hang up? all your LPARs will be down.

I saw a banking client with a lot of LPARs running in VIOS that had to be rebooted cause some bugs in the previous version of the VIOS SW affected the performance of the VIOS LPAR. If they have had another VIOS we could had rebooted one of the VIOS without actually shutting down the clients (at least in theory).

On the other hand i agree with you in giving 1GB RAM to the VIOS if using Etherchannel and SEA. My recommendation is to assign more CPU power to the VIOS but you can also configure PLM (Partition Load Manager) in order to give CPU resources to the VIOS on demand.

Hope this helps