Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 User Manual page 1254

With LPAR manager in expansion mode, LPARs to
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which one of virtual NIC numbers 8 to 15 is assigned
have restrictions on LPAR migration to LPAR manager
in standard mode or without supporting LPAR manager
expansion mode.
More than 16 VF NICs can be assigned to an LPAR on
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screen. However, you can use up to 16 VF NICs per
physical port when activating the LPAR.
When the total of VF NICs for an LPAR to activate
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exceeds 16 per physical port, a message "The VF is
already assigned the maximum assignable times to
LPARs." appears when you activate the LPAR, and the
activation fails.
(3) How to Change MAC address
Display the Virtual NIC Assignment screen.
Place the cursor on the crossing item of the LPAR in line and the virtual NIC number
in the column, and press F6: Change MAC Add to display the subscreen. Enter the
new value and press Enter. Values to set range from 00:00:00:00:00:00 to FF: FF:
FF: FF: FF: FF. The value reserved by LPAR manager, however, cannot be set. Do
not set a multicast address and broad cast address. See "(1) MAC address for
Virtual NIC" for details of the MAC address.
It is not recommended to change the MAC address .
In case of changing MAC addresses, make sure that there is
not the same MAC address port on the network With more
than one of the same MAC address on a network, the fatal
failure might occur on the network.
(4) How to change VLAN mode
Displays the Virtual NIC Assignment screen.
When VF NIC is assigned, you can specify only [All] to
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Tagged VLAN ID.
Do not change VLAN settings for VF NIC assigned to an
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activated LPAR.
Displays the Virtual NIC Assignment screen.
See "(2) How to use VLAN" for further details.
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