The following example is for 17-ports (1 port/LPAR) layer 2-switch when
the number of LPARs is 16 and 1 shared NIC per LPAR.
– Up to 16 pieces of this switch can be mounted depending on the
number of physical NICs with shared setting.
– Ports 1 – 16 are configured by the shared NICs and Port17 by the
physical NIC port.
Figure 1-31 Image of VLAN Switch
Table 1-36 List of switch functions of shared NIC
Switch function
Target Port
Settings
Port Connection
Port1 - Port16
Assign to LPAR on the Virtual NIC
(VNIC) Assignment screen.
Port17
Connect to physical cables.
With the Onboard NIC, no cable is
required.
Port Speed
Port1 - Port16
Auto Negotiation (This setting cannot be
changed.)
- Supports 1000BASE-TX.
Port17
Auto Negotiation (This setting cannot be
changed.)
- Supports 10/100/1000/10000BASE-TX
VLAN
Port1 - Port16
[VLAN mode]
- Undef (Default)
- Tagged
- Untagged
Only 1 VLAN mode can be set per LPAR.
[VLAN ID]
- Tagged: Up to 16 VLAN IDs out of the
range from 1 to 4094, or Assign all (ID).
- Untagged: Only one (1) VLAN ID out
of the range from 1 to 4094
Port17
Tagged All (This setting cannot be
changed).
Configured to transmit all packets.
LPAR manager Functions
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