Why Shared Ethernet Adapters (SEAs) Are an Important Component to Your IT Datacenter
A Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) is a Power Virtual Machine (PowerVM) feature that provides a virtual connection between a physical Ethernet adapter to a single or several virtual Ethernet adapters in local client logical partitions (LPARs). Therefore, with an SEA operating on a virtual I/O server (VIOS), virtual Ethernet adapters running in an LPAR can still transmit network data traffic beyond the immediate virtual local area network (VLAN).