I don't know a thing about the Cisco switch, but I have 3 LPARs, 1 z/VM and
2 z/OS, sharing the same OSA Express-3 port.  Since they are on the same
port they are obviously on the same subnet.

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Harder, Pieter <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't know about z10 (don't have one), but we run with two OSA 1000BaseT
> as a failover pair shared between two z/OS and one z/VM/IFL lpars. The
> outside is one /24 network and we gave out individual host addresses and use
> a VSWITCH with two RDEVs on the z/VM side as well. The OSAs keep track of
> who is where and we never had a problem with this setup.
>
> Best regards,
> Pieter Harder
>
> ________________________________________
> Van: Linux on 390 Port [[email protected]] namens Tom Burkholder [
> [email protected]]
> Verzonden: dinsdag 1 juni 2010 21:19
> Aan: [email protected]
> Onderwerp: z/VM and z/OS sharing OSAs?
>
> z/VMers,
>
> My disclaimer is I'm not a networking engineer but I have a zVM and
> networking question.
>
> I can provide more details, etc, but is anybody running z/VM and z/OS lpars
> on the same z10 and "SHR"ing the OSAs?  We originally setup the z/VM
> proof-of-concept with VSWITCH but a single OSA to a CISCO switch.  Other
> than a potential single point of failure, no problem, things work well.  We
> have no spare OSAs (and would rather not purchase) but on the same z10 we
> have a test z/OS lpar with two (2) OSAs being used connected to two other
> CISCO switches (interconnected to each other for z/OS, but not to the
> current CISCO switch with the VSWITCH).
>
> If anybody is sharing OSA's with z/VM and z/OS lpars I'd be interested in
> getting some more information or ideas if possible.  One of my biggest
> concern is being able to keep the same 192.168.xxx.yyy currently being used
> by z/VM on the single OSA onto the other OSAs/Switches if possible.
>
> Kind of a high-level diagram of what we got:
> zVMa lpar chpid 09 -------- CISCO switch XXXXXX using 192.168.xxx.yyy
> addresses.
> zOSa  lpar chpid 05 -------  CISCO switch ZZZZZ-a\
> zOSa lpar chpid 08 --------  CISCO switch ZZZZZ-b/
>
> I'd like to SHR chpids 05/08, not screw up existing zOSa, be able to
> configure z/VM with the same 192.168.xxx.yyy addresses and update
> VSWITCH/controllers to use active/standby on chipds 05/08 (and free up chpid
> 09 OSA).
>
> I found the following pdf  to be a good source, but I need some more
> information or help from the network side (e.g. can we share and keep the
> same 192.168.xxx.yyy subnet)
> http://linuxvm.org/present/misc/vswitch.pdf
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help, assistance, or ideas,
> Tom Burkholder
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