I am trying to install a VIOS pair with a load-sharing SEA adapter, following
this recipe from Developerworks. Without load-sharing everything went fine and worked as expected, but somehow i am a bit lost and the first tries with "ha_mode=sharing" didn't work at all.
Here is the situation:
I have one VIOS pair and in each VIOS i have one SEA contructed from 2 physical Ethernet Adapters (10G-Ethernet). The adapters (ent0 and ent1) as well as the SEA (ent2) work testedly well, as did the control-channel.
From the "outside" i have several VLAN IDs, "internal" i have only one (which might change, we build the machine right now).
What i tried to achieve was to have the SEA of the second VIOS share the load instead of having an idle stand-by. I wanted to base the load-sharing on the external VLAN IDs (VIOS 1 serving ext. VLANs A, C, E, ... and VIOS 2 serving ext. VLANs B, D, F, ...). For this i created one virtual adapter for each external VLAN on the SEA and tried to switch on load-sharing, but got no communication.
I suspect that i somehow missed the proper VLAN layout and confused internal and external VLANs somehow in my HMC definitions. Maybe someone has already done that and can shed some light on this. Some step-by-step how-to would be appreciated.
Another question is: how do i create additional internal VLANs and put them on this setup? Right now there is no need for additional VLANs but this requirement might well change over time.
Thanks for your help.
bakunin