Alan Altmark wrote:
[snip of some interesting comments....]
In z/VM 5.3 we announced support for IBM System z9 IEEE 802.1ad Link
Aggregation ("channel bonding", "etherchannel"), providing additional
bandwidth with each OSA you add to the "aggregation group". In this
configuration, the OSAs are usable by only a single VSWITCH at a time, and
will use additional hardware support to enforce this. (There is a
switch-to-switch protocol flowing over the links along with user data and
more than one cook in the kitchen will spoil the broth...) Imagine up to
80 Gb of data per second moving in/out of the box (up to eight 10 Gb
ports).
Oh, goodie...IBM can now bid z9s as servers for the on line pornographic
marketplace....:-) One server does both the movies *and* the billing....
DJ
