On Wednesday, 01/21/2015 at 06:26 EST, Mark Regan <netsfw_sysp...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have six sandbox LPARS that are located on two different CECs. Three on one > and three on the other. Each of the three only have one 10GbE OSA to use as we > don't want them to share an OSA with prod or test/dev. > > From looking at the manuals it looks like I could set up CTC/MPCPTP connection > between the two CECs, if we have any spare FICON channels to use that is. I > need to check on that with our hardware guy. > > What I'm wanting to do is to provide an alternate way into the sandbox LPARs on > a CEC if they were to lose there single OSA connection for some reason. Then > use OSPF routing to route the connection destined to the CEC with the down OSA, > in through the OSA on the other CEC and then over the CTC connection. Is it > doable and are there any issues to look out for? Since it is a sandbox env, > there will not be much traffic over the CTC if that scenario were to happen.
Yes, you can do that. For best results, make sure the IP addresses on the CTC connection are in a separate /30 subnet. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
