Re: Code to swap fiber card resource.

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Minor technical correction: There is no v7.1r3.  It's IBM i 7.1 with 
Technology Refresh (TR) 3. [Currently IBM is shipping TR5. ]

Delivered in TR3 is the ability to bridge an external (physical) LAN to 
an internal (Virtual) LAN.  This allows any number of partitions on the 
Virtual Lan to access the physical LAN across this bridge. Configuring 
this is very easy and overhead seems to be very very small. Redundancy 
can be configured and with a little extra effort 802.1Q VLANs can also 
be supported.

I have configured this many times already and have it in production in 
several locations.

    - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis


On 12/18/2012 1:31 PM, Hart, Doug - EI wrote:
>   Is this where you have a physical NIC in one LPAR and then run across the internal VLAN to the other LPARs?
>   We have that on our to-do list when we get up to v7.1r3.  This question was for fiber for tape backup.  I had only thought about
>   the technique for Ethernet and not fiber to a switch to a library.
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> We don't run vios yet we can virtualize our network connections.
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> From:   "Hart, Doug - EI" <Doug.Hart@xxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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> Subject:        RE: Code to swap fiber card resource.
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> Thanks, but problem is to few slots so for all LPARs to have their own
> fiber cards.
> No plans to run VIOS.
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> Does your enterprise have a fiber switch?  If so, I recommend a second
> fiber card and routing them both through a switch to that tape drive.  We
> run multiple lpars off of one tape library in one city and the other lpars
> in a different city off of one other library.  Both use a switch.
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> Failing that, can you split that by virtualizing the connection?  We do
> that with some lan connections but we've not tried it with fiber
> connections.
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> http://www.barsaconsulting.com/aprm.htm
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> From:   "Hart, Doug - EI" <Doug.Hart@xxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date:   12/18/2012 10:45 AM
> Subject:        Code to swap fiber card resource.
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>   Does anyone know of sample code that will help me automate the swap of my
> fiber card(s) between partitions?  I would like to be able to incorporate
> something into my BRMS routines.
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>   Thanks
>   Doug Hart
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