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3.4.3 Limitations and considerations
The following limitations you must consider when implementing Shared Ethernet
Adapters in the Virtual I/O Server:
Because Shared Ethernet Adapter depends on virtual Ethernet which uses
the system processors for all communications functions, a significant amount
of system processor load can be generated by the use of virtual Ethernet and
Shared Ethernet Adapter.
One of the virtual adapters in the Shared Ethernet Adapter on the Virtual I/O
Server must be defined as default adapter with a default PVID. This virtual
adapter is designated as the PVID adapter and Ethernet frames without any
VLAN ID tags are assigned the default PVID and directed to this adapter.
Up to 16 virtual Ethernet adapters with 21 VLANs (20 VID and 1 PVID) on
each can be shared on a single physical network adapter. The limit for the
number of partitions that can attach to a VLAN is the number of partitions the
server is capable of defining. In practice, the amount of network traffic will limit
the number of clients that can be served through a single adapter.
3.5 Virtual I/O Server
The Advanced POWER Virtualization feature is included in the default
configuration of the p5-590 and p5-595 systems. This feature includes
Micro-Partitioning, shared processor pooling, virtual I/O, and Partition Load
Manager for AIX 5L logical partitions.
The IBM Virtual I/O Server is a special POWER5 partition that provides the ability
to implement the virtual I/O function. Virtual I/O enables client partitions to share
I/O resources such as Ethernet adapters, SCSI disks, or Fibre Channel disks.
Dedicated I/O resources are assigned to the VIOS, which allocates and manages
I/O devices across multiple client partitions. The shared resource appears as a
virtual I/O device
or a virtual adapter to the client partition, as reflected in
Figure 3-11 on page 80.
The client partition does not communicate directly with the underlying physical
I/O adapters. Rather, when the client partition uses its virtual I/O device, it is
sending operation requests to the Virtual I/O Server. The POWER Hypervisor
provides a secure communication channel between the client partition and the
VIOS, which transports the operation requests and responses between the client
partition and the VIOS. When the VIOS receives an operation request for a
virtual device from a client partition, that request is processed and mapped to an
appropriate operation on a physical I/O device within the VIOS. This ability to
provide virtual I/O resources enables the deployment of many partitions on a
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