IEC 61850 User Feedback Task Force

It is true that LPHD is for the "physical" device. However, the subtlety is that it is really for the IEC 61850 server's perspective of physical. In a virtual environment, there can be multiple "guest OS" which represent their own "physical" device and would have at least one IEC 61850 server. So there is no issue in this particular use case since virtualization is all about isolation. Even without virtualization, it has always been possible to have multiple IEC 61850 servers within a single platform. Each of these would have their own LPHD.Sim.

There is no issue, but maybe from an editorial perspective, the scope of LPHD.Sim should be clarified to be for the IEC 61850 server in which it is located.

Herbert Falk wrote in #note-1:

It is true that LPHD is for the "physical" device. However, the subtlety is that it is really for the IEC 61850 server's perspective of physical. In a virtual environment, there can be multiple "guest OS" which represent their own "physical" device and would have at least one IEC 61850 server. So there is no issue in this particular use case since virtualization is all about isolation. Even without virtualization, it has always been possible to have multiple IEC 61850 servers within a single platform. Each of these would have their own LPHD.Sim.

There is no issue, but maybe from an editorial perspective, the scope of LPHD.Sim should be clarified to be for the IEC 61850 server in which it is located.

D.Tessier Response:
7-1 states "The logical node physical device (LPHD) represents common data of the physical device hosting the logical device .", which is contrary to your statement that it models the "IEC 61850 server". Therefore it is associated to the physical device that's hosting the logical device, and not the entire server. As for your comment that each instance of LPHD would have it's own LPHD.Sim is incorrect. I agree you may have multiple instances of LPHD.Sim in one physical device, however only a single instance shall have its LPHD.Sim data object that is controllable.

Further discussion will occur in the TF virtualiztion. 7-1 will surely need to be adapted to address hosting machine with multiple vitual IEDs - each of them having their own simualtion capability.
Typically, the Bay represents an entity that needs to be isolated, maintained and tested, and therefore requires a bay specific simulation functionality. Multiple servers in an IED, or multiple vitual IEDs USE CASES needs to be investigated within the scope of the task force.
The statement "There is no issue, but maybe from an editorial perspective, the scope of LPHD.Sim should be clarified to be for the IEC 61850 server in which it is located." is very true.