Activating logical partitions for Virtual OptiConnect

You need to configure and activate logical partitions such that they can communicate using Virtual OptiConnect.

You must install the OptiConnect feature on all the logical partitions that use Virtual OptiConnect. You must start the QSOC subsystem on each of these logical partitions. To activate the Virtual OptiConnect communications between logical partitions, follow these steps based on your System i™ model:

• On model 5xx
  1. From the Hardware Management Console (HMC), select Server Management and select the local partition profile properties.
  2. Under the OptiConnect tab, select Use Virtual OptiConnect.
  3. For the change to take effect, activate each logical partition from HMC.
• On model 8xx
  1. Use the dedicated service tools (DST) or system service tools (SST) to configure each logical partition into the OptiConnect network.
  2. From the primary partition, set the communication option Connect to Virtual OptiConnect to Yes for each logical partition (in addition to the primary partition) that uses the OptiConnect function.