There is an excellent Redpiece by Vic Cross about the care and feeding
of the VSwitch. Search for Vswitch on the redbooks site, there should
be lots of info available.
Steve Gentry wrote:
Robert, I think you and Rich made the same suggestion.
<newbie>
I don't understand the VSWITCH concept and therefore how it fits into this.
I have heard of VSWITCH. I thought it was similar in functionality to
Hipersockets, but wasn't defined the same way.
If someone could elaborate a little and/or point me to some reading
material (and examples) it would help.
</newbie>
Steve
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So do both!
You can have each VM system owning a set of devices on the OSA for VM
tcpip and VSWITCH. The linux guests will communicate with the outside
world through the VSWITCH connections, and their default route points
out through the Vswitch connection.
Then you also have the hipersocket defined with each system that needs
access to it getting a set of devices, on a seperate subnet. This way
all the UDB traffic stays in the box on the fast hipersocket lan, but
external traffic has an efficient way out of the system.
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I think I have to do the Hipersockets because the Linux will be running
UDB. There will be applications running on VM 4.3 that will need to
access the data managed by
the UDB (that is running under Linux that is running under VM 5.1, etc.).
Steve
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I configuration like this will purposely route any packets intended for
z/VM 5.1 and Linux through the z/VM 4.3 system. That's fine if you are
trying to insulate z/VM 5.1.
If you want both VMs to have access to the network as equals, it is just
easiest to give them each OSA devices and set up a Vswitch for the Linux
guests. Save the Hipersockets for interLPAR communications.
Steve Gentry wrote:
>
> I know this probably isn't the list for this question but I figure it
> would get to the largest audience. We are in the process of installing
> an IFL running VM 5.1 running Linux..
> I've been a single LPAR kind of guy all of my life and am a newbie at
> setting up this type of configuration. Below is a picture of what I
> want to do.
>
>
>
> Can I configure something like this or is there a better/different way
> to do this? IP addresses have intentionally been left out at this point.
> Thanks,
> Steve
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