>>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 2:45 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl Kingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > 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???
That would be what Guest LANs are for, or disconnected VSWITCHes. You can define Guest LANs in either QDIO or HiperSocket modes. Not too much benefit of one type over the other these days. Alan likes disconnected VSWITCHes because by default, no one can connect to them. Mark Post
