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IBM PowerVM Best Practices
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IBM PowerVM Best Practices

by Adriano de Almeida, Rafael Antonioli, Urban Biel, Sylvain Delabarre, Bartłomiej Grabowski, Kristian Milos, Fray L Rodríguez
October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
156 pages
3h 51m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Chapter 4. Networking 55
4.2 Single Virtual I/O Server
The Virtual I/O Server is reliable and stable. If you are using a single
Virtual I/O Server, the best practices for networking are simple: Keep every
connection highly available. However, for concurrent updates and maintenance,
you must either have two Virtual I/O Servers or use the Live Partition Mobility
(LPM):
򐂰 Use LA wherever possible. You achieve high availability and an increase in
network performance.
򐂰 If you cannot use LA, use NIB.
򐂰 Single Virtual I/O Server setups are common on hardware that have a limited
number of ports. If possible, use VLAN tagging.
򐂰 Use ports from different adapters that are in different enclosures and I/O
drawers.
4.3 Virtual network redundancy and failover ...
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