Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 User Manual page 1345

In the following figure, an external network should be used to establish communication
between shared NIC #0 of LPAR1 assigned to segment 1a and shared NIC #1 of LPAR2
assigned to segment 1b or shared NIC #2 of LPAR2 assigned to segment 2a.
LPAR1
#0
Physical NIC#1 Physical NIC#2
Port0 Port0
Port1
External network
LPAR2
Shared NIC
Shared NIC
#2
#1 #0
Virtual Network
1294
When a shared NIC is
used, the guest OS
recognizes it as 1 Gb
LAN (Intel PRO/1000 or
Intel 82576
specifications).
With a shared NIC
function, virtual NIC of 1
Gb LAN (Intel 82546 or
Intel 82576
specifications) can be
#1 #2 assigned to an LPAR
defined on LPAR
manager.
Segment 1a
Segment 1b
Segment 2a
LPAR manager