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<h3 id="rzahqperfve">Virtual Ethernet</h3>
<p>The Virtual Ethernet point to point connection is the default virtual network
connection between the iSeries&trade; hosting partition and each integrated Windows server.
The point to point connection is used primarily for administrative operations
which are part of the integration environment.</p>
<p>The iSeries and Windows CPU utilization cost of using the point to point
connection is similar to the utilization cost of using a hardware network
adapter. The connection is high speed, but total bandwidth is always shared
with disk, tape and other operations on IXS and IXA adapters. When you use
internet SCSI (iSCSI), you can separate virtual Ethernet operations by using
another iSCSI HBA channel.</p>
<p>A Virtual Ethernet connection between two or more integrated servers uses
the iSeries CPU to switch the traffic between servers, even when the iSeries server is not an endpoint of the traffic. For most connections this
utilization won't be significant. But, if you expect high sustained network
loads across the virtual Ethernet connection between integrated servers, you
might want to balance the cost of using the Virtual Ethernet internal switch
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