Re: hipersockets

2015-11-20 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 11/20/2015 at 02:02 GMT, David Kreuter wrote: > Another advantage is that it uses only one hipersocket triplet whereas > dedicated hipersocket will end up using one triplet per Linux virtual. > You can even use the same hiper triplet on each LPAR. > There is

Re: hipersockets

2015-11-20 Thread David Kreuter
Gregory: It does help. As a VSWITCH it can be protected by RACF hence the VLANs can be RACF protected too. Another advantage is that it uses only one hipersocket triplet whereas dedicated hipersocket will end up using one triplet per Linux virtual. You can even use the same hiper triplet on each

Re: hipersockets

2015-11-20 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
ohhh I see what you are saying (I think so). I was thinking about standard usage of vswitch bridge so a scenario where all guests have real dedicated hipersockets and vswitch has one of these hipersockets as well. This gives hipersocket virtual machines a way to talk to each other (via

Re: hipersockets

2015-11-20 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Thanks Alan. HiperSocket VSWITCH Bridge will not help when it comes to isolation, right? Vswitch simply acts as a bridge for hipersocket network using using one of the real hipersocket devices as one of its own interfaces (bridge port). Via this bridge Hipersocket network gets access to external

Available now: Linux on z Systems publications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

2015-11-20 Thread Dorothea Matthaeus
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2015-11-19 Documentation for RHEL 7.2 available on developerWorks

2015-11-20 Thread Gerhard Hiller
Please refer to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/whatsnew.html for new documentation for RHEL 7.2 * end of message Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Gerhard Hiller Software Management and