Configuring virtual Ethernet on the Virtual I/O Server
You can configure virtual Ethernet devices by deploying a system plan, create and configure a Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA), and configure a Link Aggregation device.
For better performance, you can configure the IP address by using
the SEA directly as follows:
- If the VLAN is the same as the PVID, you can configure the IP address by using the SEA interface.
- If the VLAN is not the same as the PVID, you can create a VLAN pseudo-device with the VLAN ID and assign the IP address by using the interface of the pseudo-device.
However, if the SEA fails, the IP address configured on it would go down, as a result.
In SEA failover configuration for higher availability, you can create a virtual adapter with the Port VLAN ID (PVID) of the corresponding Virtual LAN (VLAN) and configure the IP address by using the interface of that virtual adapter.
