Re: VIOS on S814 Power8 -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: VIOS on S814 Power8
From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:13:04 -0400
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IBM i will happily 'host' (Bridge) Ethernet for many guest partitions. However it cannot provide redundancy or failover as can VIOS.

IBM i will not host NPIV connected tape (or DASD for that matter.) Since you have to do your tape connections through VIO you might as well do your Ethernet as well and get redundancy there.

What you propose IS the right way to go.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 6/23/2014 7:44 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Now, if someone here thinks that I really don't need/want vios to host up
tape fiber san and ethernet speak quickly. I have tracking numbers for
three different inbound servers.

Rob Berendt

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