Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,

I have a p520 with four network ports, two are connected. I think I have missed a step as created my vio server with a virtual device (ent0) but cant see the physical devices, what have I done wrong?

$ lsdev -virtual
name status description
ent0 Available Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)
vasi0 Available Virtual Asynchronous Services Interface (VASI)
vbsd0 Available Virtual Block Storage Device (VBSD)
vhost0 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vhost1 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vhost2 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vsa0 Available LPAR Virtual Serial Adapter

$ lsdev -type adapter
name status description
ent0 Available Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)
lai0 Available GXT135P Graphics Adapter
pager0 Available Pager Kernel Extension
sissas0 Available PCI-X266 Planar 3Gb SAS Adapter
usbhc0 Available USB Host Controller (33103500)
usbhc1 Available USB Host Controller (33103500)
usbhc2 Available USB Enhanced Host Controller (3310e000)
vasi0 Available Virtual Asynchronous Services Interface (VASI)
vbsd0 Available Virtual Block Storage Device (VBSD)
vhost0 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vhost1 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vhost2 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vsa0 Available LPAR Virtual Serial Adapter
$
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Originally posted by: bassemir

My first guess would be that the ethernet card was not assigned to the vios profile in the HMC. Do you have other LPARs defined on this system that might already have ownership of that physical adapter?
Rich
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

There is profile with all system resources but its not active would this affect it, and i gave the vio server all the physical adapters which were:

Select U789C.001.DQD2J21-P1-T9 RAID Controller
Select U789C.001.DQD2J21-P1-T7 Universal Serial Bus UHC Spec
Select U789C.001.DQD2J21-P1-C4 PCI-to-PCI bridge

the machine does have a quad ethernet card in though.
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Originally posted by: bassemir

The profile for the VIO server should include the physical quad ethernet adapter if you want to see that physical adapter on the VIO partition. (ie with lsdev -type adapter)

If the VIO profile does not have the adapter assigned to it than add it (as required, not desired) and then shutdown and reactivate the VIO partition. Note: just doing a shutdown and restart does not cause the profile to be re-read. You need to shutdown the partition and then use the HMC to activate the partition.

If you have other profiles that are not active, they do not have any affect. However, note that if you have a second profile that also assigns the quad ethernet adapter to it, you will not be able to activate that partition while the VIO server partition is up because the quad ethernet adapter will be in use (by the VIO partition).

It is not possible to share the physical adapters between partitions.
Rich
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

thanks so much i made the old school boy error of not shutting down after changing the profile! How I have missed the joys of AIX!!!
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