Configuring your SEA with Etherchannel.
First check the shared virtual ethernet adapters you have –
$ lsmap -all -net
SVEA Physloc
—— ——————————————–
ent8 U8231.E2D.06C83BT-V1-C11-T1
SEA ent11
Backing device ent10
Status Available
Physloc
SVEA Physloc
—— ——————————————–
ent9 U8231.E2D.06C83BT-V1-C12-T1
SEA NO SHARED ETHERNET ADAPTER FOUND
$
Then we need to check what adapters we can use, now in our case we will be using the first 2 adapters from a dual port 1Gb card –
$ lsdev -type adapter
name status description
ent0 Available 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet PCI-Express Adapter (e414571614102004)
ent1 Available 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet PCI-Express Adapter (e414571614102004)
ent2 Available 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet PCI-Express Adapter (e414571614102004)
ent3 Available 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet PCI-Express Adapter (e414571614102004)
ent4 Available 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet PCI-Express Adapter (e414571614102004)
ent5 Available 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet PCI-Express Adapter (e414571614102004)
ent6 Available 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet PCI-Express Adapter (e414571614102004)
ent7 Available 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet PCI-Express Adapter (e414571614102004)
ent8 Available Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)
ent9 Available Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)
ent10 Available EtherChannel / IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation
ent11 Available Shared Ethernet Adapter
fcs0 Available 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs1 Available 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs2 Available 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs3 Available 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
pkcs11 Available PKCS#11 Device
sissas0 Available PCIe x4 Planar 3Gb SAS RAID Adapter
sissas1 Available PCIe x4 Internal 3Gb SAS RAID Adapter
usbhc0 Available USB Host Controller (33103500)
usbhc1 Available USB Host Controller (33103500)
usbhc2 Available USB Enhanced Host Controller (3310e000)
vfchost0 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost1 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost2 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost3 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost4 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost5 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost6 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost7 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost8 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost9 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost10 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost11 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost12 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost13 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost14 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vfchost15 Available Virtual FC Server Adapter
vhost0 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vhost1 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vhost2 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vhost3 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vhost4 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vhost5 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vhost6 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vhost7 Available Virtual SCSI Server Adapter
vsa0 Available LPAR Virtual Serial Adapter
$
Then we need to create the Etherchannel device –
# mkvdev -lnagg ent0 ent4
ent10 Available
This creates the device in standard mode, though you can switch it over to round robin –
# chdev -l ent10 -a mode=round_robin
Then we can create a SEA “bridge” between the physical Etherchannel device ent2 and the virtual ent3
# mkvdev -sea ent10 -vadapter ent8 -default ent8 -defaultid 1
ent11 Available
Once that is done, you can set-up initial TCP/IP config (en11 is the interface for the SEA ent11)
# mktcpip -hostname <vio-name> -inetaddr <ip-address> -interface en11 -start -netmask <subnet> -gateway <gateway-ip>
Now your server ready to go.