IBM Partner Pavilion Vitrual Switch Extension BMD00082 Benutzerhandbuch

BMD00082, February 2009

Chapter 9: Switch Policies  

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Use this window to configure global settings for the ServerMobility feature. 

ServerMobility - General Configuration Fields

Server Mobility State

Enables or disables the ServerMobility feature on the
VSE SmartConnect software. 

Relay on Non-Server-
Mobility Ports

Enables or disables BOOTP Relay for all ports that have 
ServerMobility disabled. 

Server Mobility Scheme

Selects the scheme to be used for encoding the option 82 information in 
the DHCP request packets, as follows: 

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Switch: The switch name is encoded in the agent circuit ID sub-
option. 

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Chassis: The chassis ID is encoded as the agent circuit ID sub-
option. 

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Vmac: The virtual MAC address of the server blade port is encoded 
in the agent circuit ID sub-option.

Auto-Recovery State

Enables or disables DHCP failover for the ServerMobility ports. When 
enabled, a backup blade server will get the same IP address as the active 
blade server if and when the active blade server goes down.

Auto_Recovery Failover 
Time

Sets the lease time for the temporary IP address assigned by the switch 
to a backup (standby) blade server while the active blade server is up.

Set Server Mobility configu-
ration to factory default

Resets ServerMobility feature parameters to factory default values.