I believe it would be a layer 2 switch at this point. Larry ________________________________
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:58 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Using a VSwitch in VM rather than VIPA You can do that. Get the 2 cards as soon as you can - they have been known to fail. Now, I'm wondering, must this be a layer 3 VSWITCH only or would the VM stack support running on a layer 2 VSWITCH? Marcy Cortes "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davis, Larry Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:39 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] Using a VSwitch in VM rather than VIPA 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
