OK, as promised, here is the How-To. First off, it was basically an occurrence of PEBKAC on my side, but once i straightened this out it worked fairly straightforward. You might want to read the following documents for reference:
2. Build SEA on the EtherCannel Device
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This is the critical part, where i failed before: for every external VLAN there has to be a distinct internal VLAN to match. We have 5 external VLANS here and for every VLAN there is one virtual adapter defined. The adapters are created with a priority of 1 on the "primary" VIOS and 2 on the "secondary" VIOS, every other property stays identical. The control channel has only an internal VLAN (ID=99) because it is only internally used.
Note that "load balancing" is not done, at least not in the classical way. In fact this setup serves the first (third, fifth, ...) VLAN over the first route (first SEA) and the second (fourth, sixth, ...) over the second. It is advisable, therefore, to sort the VLANs based on expected traffic prior to defining the adapters to balance the load as good as possible.
I hope this helps.
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