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  • 1.  Adding/Remove VLAN to SEA on VIOS

    Posted 6 days ago

    Hi,

    Is it possible to add a vlan to SEA on VIOS using any of the ansible collections for IBM Power? Or can it only be done from the HMC collection using the command module?
    I would like to do what is here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power9/9040-MR9?topic=networks-dynamically-adding-removing-vlans-virtual-io-server

    Has anyone tried doing something like this? I'm looking and can't find it in the available AIX, VIOS, HMC collections. 



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    Kamil P
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  • 2.  RE: Adding/Remove VLAN to SEA on VIOS

    Posted 5 days ago

    Hi Kamil,

    I didn't try it, but to add a VLAN to SEA on VIOS, you must first change the VIOS LPAR configuration-add VLAN to a Virtual Ethernet adapter or add a new Virtual Ethernet adapter. For this operation, you need HMC. The second part of the task is to reconfigure SEA on VIOS in case you added a new Virtual Ethernet adapter.

    There are no ready-to-use modules to complete the task. As far as I see, the only way to do it is to use the hmc_command module.



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    Andrey Klyachkin

    https://www.power-devops.com
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  • 3.  RE: Adding/Remove VLAN to SEA on VIOS

    Posted 4 days ago

    Thanks for the reply.  I use hmc_command as you suggested.

    I wonder if I should suggest this as a new feature on GitHub. It's not something that's done often, but when it is, it's usually on a large number of IBM Power/VIOS systems at once. It would be really useful in my work.



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    Kamil P
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