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A journey into the world of VLAN tagging and Virtual I/O!
I just had to share this entertaining presentation with everyone. http://gibsonnet.net/AIX/ibm/Journey_in_VLAN_world.pps Or the PDF. It's not as interesting or fun, as the animations don't work but you get the idea. I'm sharing the PDF because it appears that you can open this file on Windows fine (in read-only mode) but on a Mac it prompts for a password without an option for opening in read-only. Shame. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cgaix/resource/Journey_in_VLAN_world.pdf It was... [More]
Tags: powervm lemal chris aix vlan vio ibm bernard gibson |
IVM and VLAN Tagging
I was working
with a customer recently on a Power Blade that was running the Integrated
Virtualisation Manager (IVM). They’d installed a VIO partition onto the Blade
and had hoped to install a couple of AIX LPARs on the system. However they didn’t
get very far. As soon as they
attempted to NIM install the LPARs, they would get stuck at trying to ping the
NIM master from the client. Basically, the Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) was
not working properly and none of the LPARs could communicate with the external
network. So they asked for... [More]
Tags: ivm chhwres vlan lshwres aix tag vios sea |
VLAN tagging and the VIOS: some questions and answers.
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 |
