On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 02:47 EST, Karl Kingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last question: Is there any benefit to having hipersockets defined for > VM guest to guest communication? The guests are also all connectde to a > vswitch. I can see the need for hipersockets when you need to > communicate across LPARS but for internal VM???
In general, I would say "no", but there are always exceptions. If you have tons of data streaming in/out of a guest, then you *may* benefit from a real HiperSockets connection for that guest and, by association, its peers. Trying it both ways with *your* workload and measuring throughput and CPU utilization with your performance monitor is the only real way to find out. Don't forget that if you do that, you will have to create another subnet since each LAN segment (real or otherwise) has its own subnet. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
