SEA SRIOV VNIC and HNV
Hello,
In Kyndryl we have deployed and are managing big SAP environments with power 9 / 10 for SAP HANA using AIX / Suse with big Lpars.
We have deployed SEA (on 10G) and VNIC on (10G/25G/100G) on many VIOS/LPAR to maintain the LPM capabilities, for us HNV exists but is too complex.
SR-IOV (including vnic/hnv) are very useful to balance network IRQ between system cores at lpar level.
Not to reinvent the wheel please find very interesting documents around SEA SRIOV VNIC and HNV
Hope this will help you. @Kyndryl AIX Team
https://builtonpower.com/2022/11/introduction-to-sr-iov-and-vnic-for-ibm-i/
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/powervm-virtual-ethernet-speed-often-confused-vios-sea-speed
schematic coming from : vNIC_and HNV_Planning_and_Configuration_V1.2.pdf
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Jean-Francois Noel
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu September 04, 2025 04:40 AM
From: Anas AlSaleh
Subject: PCI-100Gb VIOs SEA Configuration
Hello ,
any one configured SEA over PCI-100G?
what is the recommendation with PCI-100G using SR-IOV instead of SEA?
Thank you
aleh
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Anas AlSaleh
IBM Power Systems Software Specialist
Saudi Business Machines ( SBM )
Riyadh
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