Originally posted by: dukessd
Obviously.
As to what the limits are, well that is another question.
If the VIOS is performing lots of operations like iscsi, multipathing, multiple shared ethernets and hosting lots of very busy virtual disks, etc. then you are going to need to give it a bit more memory and some more processor power if you don't want it to be a bottleneck.
Although unsupported, you can use the oem_setup_env and normal AIX performance monitoring commands to see how it is coping. (I say normal as in installed with the VIOS, don't install anything else like nmon - VIOS will become unsupported if anything other than device drivers (and possibly SSH - jury still out on SSH) is installed).
I say "unsupported" because I believe oem_setup_env is ONLY supported for installing device drivers (and maybe SSH).
That said, as long as you don't try tuning the VIO server in any other way than adding memory and CPU, you shouldn't have any issues with support.
So you can monitor its progress / performance with vmstat, svmon, etc.
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