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Workspace PowerVM VIOS
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 17, 2016

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Control for SEA Shared Ethernet Adapter) fallback behavior in dual VIOS setup

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

In current scenario of a dual virtual I/O server setup with SEA fail over configured, clients see a very small outage (instances of request time out to put simply) while the active SEA (priority=1) fails for some reason (cable, adapter, switch etc.) and the network traffic start getting bridged by standby SEA (priority=2). This instance of outage is understandable and appreciated, as this helps moving our workload from a failed networking resource to an active networking resource, but another outage that happens when the failed SEA (with priority=1) comes back and client traffic immediately falls back to higher priority SEA !

This don't leaves any opportunity for administrators to plan for movement of network traffic fallback during a desired time window (preferably during lean workload hours)

Following the analogy of PowerHA, where we have startup policy, fail over policy and fallback policy, it would really be helpful in production scenarios if we can tunable to control the fallback to an active SEA as well.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 7, 2016

    .Announced in PowerVM 2.2.5.0

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 15, 2016

    Hi Team,
    I was able notice your reply on RFE as "Planned for Future Release", only after i made this request for review today.

    Apologies for the same, actually i also subscribed to feed to this RFE and was expecting an auto reply for any update on my inbox.

    Anyways, thanks for considering this RFE as candidate for a future generally available (GA) release of VIOS.

    Lokesh Bhatt
    lokeshbhatt@in.ibm.com

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 15, 2016

    Hi Team,
    It is been more than two month since this request was submitted but have received no response so far !

    Am engaged with another financial client at UK these days and facing the same query.

    Please treat a little promptly and respond / action.

    NOTE : This request defaulting into private category and am not able to request impacted client to vote for this and share their comment at it on the portal. Am sure this can not attract any external vote this way and request to please consider this accordingly

    Lokesh Bhatt
    lokeshbhatt@in.ibm.com

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 3, 2016

    The capability will be provided in the upcoming VIOS release 2.2.5.0, A new SEA option: noauto-failback.
    If enabled, the lower priority SEA will continue bridge traffic after the high priority SEA has recovered and come online.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 18, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #85590 in product PowerVM VIOS.

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