z/VM simulates the function of a hardware switch (called the Virtual Switch). Each virtual machine (and even TCP/IP on VM itself) can use the virtual switch to access the 'real' network. The traffic from the machines on the virtual switch can be load balanced (as of z/VM 5.3) over 3 OSA Express ports.
Lindy Mayfield wrote:
Just curious, because I don't know how the hardware works, if 30 mainframes do the work of 3,900 servers, that means 1 mainframe does 130. Does that mean that potentially that 1 mainframe has the equivalent of at least 130 network cards? I can see how most of the hardware is virtualized, but the networking I don't quite see, yet. How does that part work? Lindy
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