> I see no benefit from doing IPMP in each LDOM instead
> of doing IPMP at the platform level and giving the
> resulting virtual interface to the vnet to the LDOM.

OK picture this. you have a domain controller with two interfaces
  e1000g0  and nxge0     both are on the same vlan  192.168.1.x
joined together with IPMP. active interface is e1000g0. we have two different 
LDOMS that are going
to be using this network LDOMa and LDOMb. each LDOM has 4 zones under it. This 
gives us five
vnets on each LDOM ten in total. Since IPMP is active/passive all of your 
traffic from ten different vnets 
is going down your e1000g0 pipe. 

  now lets say we do our IPMP down inside the LDOMS/zones this would require 
that I create 5 vnets on LDOMa under e1000g0 and 5 vnets on LDOMa under nxge0. 
5 vnets on LDOMb under e1000g0 and 5 vnets on LDOMb under nxge0. Now down 
inside the LDOMS/zones I alternate between which vnet is the primary. This 
allows me to double the network bandwidth down inside the LDOMS/zones than 
doing all of the IPMP at the domain controller level.


  Next:
  My environment has 4 to 6 LDOMS on a given domain controller all running 4 
zones inside of them. Each of the LDOMS is tied to a vlan that I do not want or 
need on the domain controller. I do not want a interface plumbed up on the 
domain controller just to run IPMP on it instead of the LDOMS.
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