| z/VM Release |
Brief Description |
| 5.3.0 |
Fulfilled statement of direction
for Virtual switch IEEE Standard 802.3ad Link Aggregation support. Up to
eight OSA-Express2 features associated with an ETHERNET (Layer 2)
virtual switch can be grouped and used as a single "fat pipe" helping
to increase bandwidth and provide near-seamless failover in the event
of a link failure.
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| 5.3.0 |
dot1dBridge MIB support for virtual switches. SNMP support for the
dot1dBase group and the dot1dTp group as documented in RFC 1493.
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| 5.3.0 |
Domain 8 - Virtual Networking monitor domain |
| 5.3.0 |
Diagnose x'26C' functions. Information equivalent to the QUERY
CONTROLLER, QUERY LAN, QUERY VSWITCH, and QUERY NIC commands.
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| 5.3.0 |
Virtual network configuration change simplification. Changes to the
authorized VLAN ID set and to promiscuous mode authorization take
effect immediately instead of requiring a REVOKE, a GRANT, and an
UNCOUPLE/COUPLE.
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| 5.3.0 |
Virtual switch Native VLAN ID configuration. |
| 5.3.0 |
Virtual network SNMP Trap support. |
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| 5.2.0 |
Sniffer support for virtual networks including ESM
authorization. |
| 5.2.0 |
VLAN range support with APAR VM63735. |
| 5.2.0 |
Pre-configured virtual switch controller stacks
DTCVSW1 and DTCVSW2.
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| 5.2.0 |
Fulfilled statement of direction to
simplify networking administration and management of VLANs with support
for GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) using OSA-Express2.
(APARs VM63784 and PK08444)
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| 5.2.0 |
Fulfilled statement of direction to provide
system and guest exploitation of HiperSockets supporting the IPv6
protocol.
(APARs VM63850 and PK14010)
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| 5.1.0 |
ETHERNET (Layer 2) VSWITCH Statement of Direction fulfilled
with CP APAR VM63538 and TCP/IP APAR PQ98202.
The virtual switch can handle all
types of traffic - not just IP.
Requires a current OSA Express Feature on a z890 or z990 or an OSA
Express 2 Feature.
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| 5.1.0 |
ESM Support for VSWITCH and Guest LAN |
| 5.1.0 |
IEEE 802.1q compliance changes.
VSWITCH is VLAN aware or not VLAN AWARE.
PORTTYPE option added.
VLAN ANY option removed.
Some configurations may require migration effort.
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| 5.1.0 |
Enhanced VSWITCH failover support. Stall detection.
Improved error reporting and recovery. |
| 5.1.0 |
VMLAN allows specification of ranges for automatic and static
MAC address assignments |
| 5.1.0 |
Removed virtual NIC requirement for even/odd pair |
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| 4.4.0 |
HiperSockets Guest LAN - broadcast |
| 4.4.0 |
QDIO Guest LAN - IPv6 |
| 4.4.0 |
IP VSWITCH introduced with VLAN support |
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| 4.3.0 |
HiperSockets Guest LAN - multicast, accounting |
| 4.3.0 |
QDIO Guest LAN - unicast, multicast, broadcast, accounting |
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| 4.2.0 |
HiperSockets Guest LAN - unicast |
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