Here are some helpful resources on setting up Shared Ethernet Adapters.   If you've worked with dual Virtual I/O Servers (VIOS), you've most likely got experience with Shared Ethernet Adapters (SEAs). You can set them up in failover mode or using the more recent load sharing . With failover, the Ethernet adapters on the backup SEA (for example, on VIO server 2) sit idle until there is a planned or unplanned failure on VIOS1's SEA. In other words, SEAs in failover mode is a binary configuration: if SEA on VIOS1 is up, then your physical Ethernet... [More]

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