RE: Virtual Ethernet between IBM i LPARs

We do have vios, and now that I look, we have an Ethernet adapter in
that vios that is bridged to the same vlan as the two iseries lpars. It
must be doing the sharing for us. I vaguely remember having to order one
extra adapter.




Kevin Bucknum
Senior Programmer Analyst
MEDDATA/MEDTRON
Tel: 985-893-2550

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 3:22 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Virtual Ethernet between IBM i LPARs

Buck,

If your system is old enough to have the HEA in it, OK, then it can do
all the virtualization for you. If it's a four port adapter assigned to
one partition then you'll need to bridge it to the virtual partitions in
order for that partition to see the network.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Buck Calabro
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 2:14 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Virtual Ethernet between IBM i LPARs

On 8/11/2015 2:01 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

IOW, we wouldn't bother with the intermediate step of setting up
virtual when we're going to need the other anyway.

Great point! My thoughts were simple, as they tend to be. I don't have
a 4-port adapter I can dedicate to the guest LPAR; the TCP/IP traffic
will be low; I don't need to pester the infrastructure people for an IP
address, a rule in the external routing configuration, a slot in the
patch bay...

Haha, I thought I was taking the easy road!

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--buck

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