[sicce]

I want to set up three VIOS on my p51A, using combination of internal disks and FC disks as boot devices. But I have only one dual port NIC, question is can I allocated the NIC to one of my VIOS and then create virtual ethernet adapters on my other VIOS and route through the one VIOS that has the physical NIC. Also I am using IVM not an HMC.

Also whats the process of moving from an HMC managed environment to an IVM environment, would I have to do a complete re-install of the VIOS.

Thanks
Sicce

[duke900ssd]

IVM takes the whole system, then the LPARS can only use virtual devices from the IVM partition.

So you cannot install 3 VIOS without an HMC.

[john.samons]

Just a question, if you do setup three VIOS on that system, what is the point? You can maybe virtualize the one (if you used a HMC to setup the other two), and that's a MAYBE - but you would sacrifice performance, redundancy and probably sit with an unsupported configuration anyway.

Yeah, afaik if you want to move from the HMC to IVM or from IVM to HMC you would need to reinstall...

I'd suggest start with one VIOS and build a working, redundant configuration. You can do two VIOS, but there are more considerations...

[ross.mather]

John, you seem to be confusin the issue here - its really very simple, you cannot have more that one VIO server when you use IVM.

sicce, I'm interested in what kind of redundancy you think you'd get from having three VIO servers where they all share the same ethernet?

[john.samons]

Ah I thought so, but was thinking hypothetically. Either way, I don't see the benefit.