Blade ICE RACKSWITCH G8124-E - Manual (Page 160)

BLADEOS 6.5.2 Application Guide
160 Chapter 12: Virtual NICs BMD00220, October 2010
Figure 20 vNIC Failover Solution
By default, vNIC Teaming Failover is disabled on each vNIC group, but can be enabled or disabled
independently for each vNIC group using the following commands:
Hypervisor NIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC vSwitch
VM 3
VM 4
Hypervisor NIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC vSwitch
VM 1
VM 2
Servers
Port 1
Port 2
Port 10
Port 11
VNIC
Group 1
VNIC
Group 2
X
Primary
Switch
To Backup
Switch
Virtual
Pipes
X
X
Upon Port 1 link failure, the switch
informs the server hypervisor
for failover on affected VNICs only
RS G8124(config)# vnic vnicgroup
RS G8124(vnic group config)# failover