• VLAN settings for the management path and operation path
Guest OS LPAR manager Internal LAN switch
VLAN: None
(management path)
VLAN ID: 100
(operation path)
(1) Tagged
VLAN ID: 100
(2) Trunk port settings
VLAN IDs: 1, 100
Native VLAN ID: 1
(default)
Note:
• Do not set the VLAN configuration on OS or LPAR manager for the
management path.
SR-IOV
Overview
LPAR manager supports SR-IOV, which is hardware functionality of a physical
NIC. You can use VF NICs by enabling SR-IOV and setting the NIC scheduling
mode to shared mode. The features of SR-IOV are as follows:
• Capable of transferring data at a high speed comparable to dedicated
NICs
• The load on the physical processor is low compared to a shared or virtual
NIC
• Transmission bandwidth limitations can be set in 100-Mpbs increments.
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LPAR manager Functions
Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series Logical partitioning manager User's Guide