[babylonrocker]

Hi all ...
i'm setting up two vioserver for one p595 , in this squadron the customer wont to deploy test and develop lpar , all with the hw resources hosted by vio . The lpar can be over 7 vlan different , and this is my problem .... how implementing this kind of solution ?
Any advice is appreciated , just now , i do some vio but ever not in availability and ever with only one vlan hosted.

Thanks in advance .

[cdelgadop]

Hi

VIO

Hope this helps

[babylonrocker]

yes helps a lot .... i've already read many of them , but i dont saw never a case study with my actual need .
so i would like have a rapid answer to this question , if for example you must create a vioserver that host 7 different vlan to his partitions , what kind of approach you will choose?
i mean if is better use a dedicated adapter for any vlan , or some physical adapter aggregated in a single trunk with pvid .

[cdelgadop]

Hi

Use of VIOS helps in consolidation of resources. So i think using at least two physical adapters in a Etherchannel configuration, configure the Virtual Lan Adapter required and make it a Shared Ethernet adapter and configure this one with those 7 vlans is the best approach. You need to make those etherchannel ports trunking mode.

Hope this helps

[ross.mather]

Whether shared or independent Ethernet Cards depends on your expected throughput of the Ethernet connections and the necessity of keeping the info separated on different physical networks - thinking of DMZs for example.

Its pretty common to have one physical network for production, one for a DMZ and then to share the network ports for Test, Acceptance, Development..

[babylonrocker]

yes thank you , finally my dudes are cleared , directly from customer , after some reflections about some configurations and we have choose some physical adapter in a trunk with pvid ....

[babylonrocker]

i have a big question , i finish the setup of two vioserver ,
with sea failover capability , and i create the control channel for the sea . Now my question is , is enough to setup the virtual ethernet with trunk setting and IEEE 802.1q and some additional vlan , and on client partition create a virtual ethernet with one of vlan tag previously configured , or is necessary on the vioserver define the vlan device by command ( for example )
mkvdev -vlan virt-eth -tagid oneofmyvlantag ?

i hope of be clear

[ross.mather]

You'll need to perform the mkvdev to bridge the Physical Adapters to your VLANs. This needs to be done for each Virtual VLAN.