Originally posted by: ppereira

Hi, I'm trying to restore an mksysb from a NIM server to an Lpar on a p750. The thing is that the way that the Lpar reaches the network is through a virtual adapter whith a vlan adapter on top of it, because on the vios servers this vlan is routed as an additional vlan.
When I go to the SMS menu on the Lpar, it tries to reach the NIM server trhough the en0 (it has no en1 since it is a vlan adapter) and it does not reach the master.
Is there a known workaround?.
I can think of adding an adapter with an IP on the default vlan an boot/install trhough it but I'm asking just in case.
Thanks in advance.
Pablo.
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Originally posted by: j.gann

as you already suspect the vlan adapter is an aix virtual device, and sms does not provide the same functionality.
anyway, why would you want to put a vlan adapter ontop of a virtual adapter? 2 (hypervisor) virtual adapters will do just the same (in terms of tagging), and your sms knows these and let you netboot.
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Originally posted by: ppereira

I've got the vlan adapter on top of the virtual adapter because my scenario is the following:

2 vios
For the vlan 161 I've got:
SEA failover for developement and test partitions using this vlan.
1 SEA on each vios and etherchannel for the production Lpars.

So; the SEA Failover has vlan adapter 2 and additional vlans 161, and the SEAs for the etherchannel have vlan adapter 7 and 8 on vios1 and vios2 and additional vlans 161.
Developements and test partitions are configured with virtal ethernet adapters using vlan id 2 and on top of it a vlan adapter whith vid 161.
Production partitions are configured with an adapter with vlan id 7 and other whith vlan id 8 and an etherchanel whit ip 161.

I'm not able to boot trhough the adapter on the developement/test partitions because of the vlan adapter.

Anyway I figured it out booting from the Nim with a vlan visible from the master and after it is installed I had to change the default gateway, remove the ip on the virtual adapter, recreate the vlan adapter and change the host at /etc/hosts.

Thanks
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