Hmm.  I didn't realize the Vswitch needed a real OSA card.  Bummer.

Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 6:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: First time Linux install


On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 16:45, Post, Mark K wrote:
> Your MP3K should work fine for your testing.  If it's very heavily loaded
> performance for your Linux/390 workload may not be acceptable.  If you can
> get approval, you'll want to upgrade your system to z/VM 4.4.  That will
get
> you a lot of very nice features such as Guest LANs, Virtual Switches, etc.

You won't get VSWITCH.

That's because it relies on a real OSA-Express to do its magic and I'm
thinking that's going to be tough to manage on a Multiprise.

But you do get Guest LANs, which are absolutely marvellous.

Adam

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