It's very possible. I do it all the time.
Put a NICDEF in the directory for TCP/IP, and set up the interface. It
can be the same as your real OSA interface (device number, IP Address,
etc). TCP/IP on VM won't know the difference.
And when you get the second card, the failover process will work just fine.
Davis, Larry wrote:
I would like to use a VSWITCH being managed through CP and operating
over to separate ports on an OSA Express 2 card. Then I would like to
link my main z/VM TCP/IP stack to this VSWITCH. Am I barking up a non
existent tree or is this possible
I am using the two TCP/IP Controllers ID's DTCVSW1/2 included with z/VM
5.2
I thought if I could create a virtual NIC and couple this with the
VMSWITCH then the main z/VM stack would have a redundant and managed
failover for a OSA port failure.
I would prefer to have the ports on separate cards, but don't see that
happening anytime soon.
Larry Davis
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