hipersockets

2015-11-19 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
I am planning to use hipersockets for internal communication between oracle nodes in each RAC cluster (oracle nodes run in different lpars). I've never used real hipersockets before so I am no sure if I understand this correctly. >From what I've learned so far, In order to achieve this, we need

Re: hipersockets

2015-11-19 Thread David Kreuter
Hi - I've done the hipersocket VLAN implementation. It works well and of course Alan's comments are correct. Another approach I've used is to create a VSWITCH on each LPAR using the same set of OSAs. Now when you use VLANs on this VSWITCH RACF can be involved for better protection. OK won't be

Re: hipersockets

2015-11-19 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Thank you for a really quick answer Alan. So I did get it right more or less. I didn't know that I can do vlans which will make things cleaner to some extent. But I was hopping for a different answer when it comes to security. We will have at least non-prod and prod environments on separate

Re: hipersockets

2015-11-19 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 11/19/2015 at 07:38 GMT, Grzegorz Powiedziuk wrote: > From what I've learned so far, In order to achieve this, we need to have a > shared chpid between LPARS. Hipersockets on the same chpid can communicate > with each other. Hosts using the same VLAN on

Re: hipersockets

2015-11-19 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Thanks David. I thought about doing vswitch but then AFIK I would end up with with virtual hipersockets on linux guest. And I've read in IBMs redbook for oracle 12: IBM HiperSockets™ are certified and supported for the private network. Only a network that is configured with *real* HiperSockets is

Re: hipersockets

2015-11-19 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 11/19/2015 at 08:35 GMT, Grzegorz Powiedziuk wrote: > I thought about doing vswitch but then AFIK I would end up with with > virtual hipersockets on linux guest. Linux guests can use real HiperSockets with the HiperSocket VSWITCH bridge on z/VM. Their