Here are some questions I received recently regarding VLAN tagging on the VIO server. My answers are shown in green .   “Hi Chris,   Q: I’m trying to understand when, where and why there would be the need to use ‘mkvdev –vlan (etc.) on the VIOS, and I’m wondering whether you would be able to clarify this for me, please.   Is it necessary to add the VLAN tag devices to the SEA, or is it suffice to just have them defined within the Virtual Ethernet itself which is part of the SEA?”   A: It is suffice to simply define the VLAN ids assigned... [More]

Tags:  ent6 tagging sea virt_adapters=ent3 power7 vlan hmc tag -attr ent5 mkvdev -dev -vlan chdev dlpar dynamic