VIKAS MR wrote: > Hello, > Thank you for the answer. > Here by "CPU" in T5140/T5240 systems I meant one "CPU socket". May be I did > not communicate properly in the previous message. > > Yes that is a good idea to have "number of CPU's" as fallback option in case > the "CPU socket" to which it is assigned fails. > > So is there any option like that ? > Because, the least we want is that the VNIC goes "down" when a CPU goes down.
No, that won't happen. VNICs register callback functions with the CPU subsystem to get notified of events like CPU going off-line. When a CPU goes off-line, VNIC will bind to a different CPU. Later when the CPU comes on-line, it will re-bind back to the original CPU. -krgopi --
