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  • 1.  vios - add new vlan tag to existing sea adapter

    Posted Wed March 30, 2011 02:35 PM

    Originally posted by: zimmma00


    I have a pair of vio servers (version 2.2). They have a few SEA adapters. One of the SEA adapters was built for a single vlan coming over it. Since then, another vlan was built and we can now trunk two vlans or that one cable. Since I have production running on this SEA, Is there a way to add the new vlan tag to the vios without taking an outage? To make things less complicated, I had networking run a new cable with both vlans on it. Currently, I just have the cable with the single vlan in the server.

    I am probably missing a lot of information. Please let me know if there are docs on this. Thank you.
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  • 2.  Re: vios - add new vlan tag to existing sea adapter

    Posted Thu March 31, 2011 07:51 AM

    Originally posted by: zimmma00


    I was able to get the information to this issue. There are two ways of dynamically changing the vlan tags on your vios. The first can be found at the URL http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp?topic=/p7hb1/iphb1_vios_managing_vlans.htm .

    The second is as follows: See redbook http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4194.pdf for more details.
    1) DLPAR a new trunk with the vlan to the vio servers
    2) cfgdev to let the system know about them
    3) update the vio servers profile with what you DLPARed
    4) add the new ethernet interface to your existing SEA on your vio servers. chdev -dev ent? -attr virtual_adapters=entOLD,entNEW
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  • 3.  Re: vios - add new vlan tag to existing sea adapter

    Posted Thu February 09, 2012 06:24 PM

    Originally posted by: dsisman


    Hi zimma00,

    Were you successful in modifying your single vlan SEA to a trunk?
    Without an outage?

    Danny.
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