There is nothing special on the NIC to use a VSWITCH that has LACP. Did you do the grant?
Marcy From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Rogério Soares Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:07 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] definition of guest using port group and vswitch (link aggregation Dear friends, i have a new problem today.. For the first time i tryed set a vswitch using port group definitions using: set port group grpsrv01 join 1D00.P0 1E00.P0 Port group GRPSRV01 is created Ready; T=0.01/0.01 11:19:10 DEFINE VSWITCH VSWSVC01 ETHERNET RDEV 0800.P0 GROUP GRPSRV01 VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWSVC01 is created SET VSWITCH VSWSVC01 GRANT THOR q vswitch vswsvc01 acc VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWSVC01 Type: QDIO Connected: 1 Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTED ETHERNET Accounting: OFF VLAN Unaware MAC address: 02-61-01-00-00-01 MAC Protection: Unspecified State: Ready IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8 Isolation Status: OFF Authorized userids: SYSTEM THOR Uplink Port: Group: GRPSRV01 Active LACP Mode: Active RDEV: 1D00.P00 VDEV: 1D00 Controller: DTCVSW2 RDEV: 1E00.P00 VDEV: 1E00 Controller: DTCVSW1 Backup Devices: RDEV: 0800.P00 VDEV: 0800 Controller: DTCVSW2 BACKUP Ready; T=0.01/0.01 13:04:10 on USER DIRECT i set: 02125 USER THOR THOR 512M 512M G 02126 INCLUDE LINDFLT 02127 MACHINE ESA 2 02128 CPU 00 02129 NICDEF 0800 TYPE QDIO LAN SYSTEM VSWSVC01 02130 * DISCO S.O 02131 MDISK 100 3390 0001 10016 LX9B52 MW but , when i tried make linux up, appears like there is no device 0800 ... query #cp q nic direct on guest i have: CP Q NIC Default System MAC Protection: OFF Network Device Allocation: Permitted before using link aggregation, i guet a lot of information more like this: 00: CP Q NIC 00: Adapter 0800.P00 Type: QDIO Name: UNASSIGNED Devices: 3 00: MAC: 02-00-00-00-00-0F VSWITCH: SYSTEM VSWSVC01 There is a special definition on vswitch or user direct to make a guest using link aggregation? I can't find any aditional information... thanks again for any help.