Alan and Chuckie won't like it but yes you can share an OSA OSD chpid on two or more lpars. You can (sorry Chuckie) even use the same device triplet in multiple LPARs. You can create quite a nice architecture with this. You cannot do link aggregation on a shared OSA. David
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) Sent: Thu 9/11/2008 4:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IBMVM] VSWITCH Hi I have a quick question. Can I use the same physical OSA address for a vswitch on two different LPARS? Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
