A shared Ethernet adapter is a Virtual I/O Server
component that bridges a physical Ethernet adapter and Ethernet adapters. When
using a Shared Ethernet Adapter, logical partitions on the virtual network can
share access to the physical network and communicate with stand-alone servers
and logical partitions on other systems. The Shared Ethernet Adapter eliminates
the need for each client logical partition to a dedicated physical adapter to
connect to the external network. [Source:
Adapted from IBM]
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Shared Ethernet Adapters With Shared Ethernet Adapters on the Virtual I/O Server logical partition, virtual Ethernet adapters on client logical partitions can send and receive outside network traffic.
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What is virtual storage? z/OS uses both types of physical storage (central and auxiliary) to enable another kind of storage called virtual storage.
