>>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2007 at 6:10 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hans Rempel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. We just installed a second OSA card on a z/800 running z/VM 5.2. I > would now like to set up my VSWITCH to use two ports, one on each card, for > fail over support. I have asked the network folks to give me access to a > second switch but they only have one switch for my subnet. Can I use a > switch that is VLAN enabled and connect to a port on it that is on the same > subnet as my VSWITCH to achieve my fail over environment or is it more > complicated than that?
That should work, until they can give you a port on another switch to eliminate the single point of failure. Mark Post