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Agenda
Virtual I/O configuration concepts Describe the new Integrated Virtual Ethernet (IVE) adapter
Architecture Multi-Core Scaling
Describe and configure virtual Ethernet Configure external network access using IVE Describe and configure external network access using Shared Ethernet adapter (SEA)
With Link Aggregation With SEA Failover
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Virtual SCSI and Shared Ethernet adapters require the Advanced POWER Virtualization feature and a configured Virtual I/O Server The Virtual I/O Server is a dedicated special appliance partition
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Logical Switch
Logical Switch
Port Group 1 10 Gb or 1 Gb physical port 1 Gb physical port External Layer 2 or Layer 3 switch
Three IVE models: Dual-port Gigabit: 1 port group, 2 physical 1 Gb ports Dual-port 10 Gigabit: 2 port groups, 1 physical 10 Gb port per port group Quad-port Gigabit: 2 port groups, 2 physical 1 Gb ports per port group
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IVE Ports
Logical ports are associated with a specific physical port Port group: Set of 16 logical ports on 1 or 2 physical ports: Logical ports can be split evenly between the 2 physical ports in a port group, or unevenly 1 or 2 port groups per Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA), depending on model 1 or 2 physical ports per port group, depending on model, each with own Layer 2 switch LPAR Logical Port Logical Switch OS ent lhea Logical devices as they appear in AIX IVE
Port Group
HEA
Physical Port
External Switch
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Switch
Switch
16 ports
each has 1 path to the processor
4 ports
Physical Switch Physical Switch
each has 4 paths to the processor
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LPARs which are configured for logical ports using this physical port
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Enabled means HMC will attempt to negotiate flow control for physical port
MCS
A Virtual I/O Server partition must be listed as the promiscuous LPAR if it is using a port on the IVE as part of a Shared Ethernet adapter device
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IVE Demonstration
Configure an IVE logical port on the VIOS LPAR
1. 2. Check the configuration of the physical adapter Add a logical port for the VIOS LPAR and make it promiscuous
POWER6 System VIOS LPAR1 LPAR2
ent0 lhea0
Ethernet Switch
POWER Hypervisor P0 P1
HEA
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LPAR 1
LPAR 2
LPAR 3
LPAR 4
LPAR 5
VLAN 1
VLAN 2
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Select additional VLANs Allows the adapter to communicate on multiple VLANS Requires additional configuration in the LPAR
Virtual Ethernet interfaces are configured in AIX just like physical adapter interfaces
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192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2
ent0 lhea0
en0 ent0
PVID=1 ieee_virtual_eth=0
en0 ent0
PVID=1 ieee_virtual_eth=0 POWER Hypervisor
P0
P1
HEA
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SEA Example
Shared Ethernet adapter is used to extend VLAN 2 and 3 using the physical Ethernet in the Virtual I/O Server
Standalone servers Virtual I/O Server LPAR 1, 2, 3
Ethernet Switch
Managed system
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Virtual adapters that will be associated with an SEA on the VIO Server must have the Access external network checkbox selected
Virtual Ethernet adapters and Hypervisor switch ports are configured here on the HMC/IVM
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VIOS
switch
ent0 physical
ent1 virtual
PVID 1
Hypervisor
ent2 (SEA)
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SEA Demonstration
Configure an SEA adapter on the VIOS
1. 2. Create a virtual Ethernet adapter on the VIOS LPAR that can access external networks Create the SEA on the VIOS LPAR using the lhea port and the virtual adapter
POWER6 System VIOS SEA
192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2
LPAR1
LPAR2
en0 ent0
PVID=1 ieee_virtual_eth=0
en0 ent0
PVID=1 ieee_virtual_eth=0 POWER Hypervisor
P0
P1
HEA
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Client
Client
Client
Physical Storage
Hypervisor
The red connections show two clients accessing the same physical storage (A) via two different server adapters (B) and virtual target devices (D) The blue connection shows multiple target devices (D) attached to a single server adapter (B)
PHY
VTD
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hdisk7 hdisk6
hdisk5 hdisk0
fcs0
fcs1
sas0
POWER Hypervisor
SAN
FC card
Internal storage
Optical device
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Create a Virtual Media Repository which can be stocked with DVD-ROM/RAM media Clients can use images stored in repository as cd0 devices with media FB virtual device characteristics:
Read-only FB devices can be shared by multiple clients Bootable FB devices appear in SMS Reside in FB storage pools
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Create new file device with a certain size, create the VTD, and map to vhost adapter: Create new 30 MB file called fb_disk1
$ mkbdsp -sp fbpool 30m -bd fb_disk1 -vadapter vhost3 Creating file "fb_disk1" in storage pool "fbpool". Assigning file "fb_disk1" as a backing device. vtscsi3 Available fb_disk1
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--------------- ----------------------------- ----------------vhost3 VTD Status LUN Backing device Physloc U8203.E4A.10CD1F1-V1-C15 vtscsi3 Available 0x8100000000000000 /var/vio/storagepools/fbpool/fb_disk1 0x00000000
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LPAR1 vtscsi2
fbpool1
(FB storage pool)
fb_disk2
rootvg
cl_mksysb AIX53_iso AIX61_iso
stpool1
(LV storage pool)
vtopt1
hdisk2
cd1 vscsi1
POWER Hypervisor
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For example:
$ mkvdev vdev hdisk3 vadapter vhost0 vtscsi0 Available $ mkvdev vdev lv10 vadapter vhost0 vtscsi1 Available $ mkvdev vdev cd0 vadapter vhost0 vtopt0 Available
physical volume logical volume optical device
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Virtual adapter ID is 11
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hdisk0
fcs0
fcs1
sas0
cd0
vhost0
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Conclusion
Virtual I/O devices on POWER5 and POWER6 systems include virtual Ethernet, Integrated Virtual Ethernet (IVE), Shared Ethernet (SEA), and virtual SCSI devices Virtual Ethernet and IVE, are part of the base feature and do not require PowerVM (or Advanced Power Virtualization for POWER5)
Devices are defined in the HMC Configuration in AIX is same as for physical devices
Virtual SCSI and SEA devices extend the use of physical devices to multiple clients using the Virtual I/O Server and require the PowerVM feature
Create virtual devices with mkvdev on VIO Server command line to bridge virtual Ethernet adapters (mkvdev sea) and to associate virtual SCSI adapters with physical storage
File-backed virtual disks and optical devices provide even more flexibility in storage allocation
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