[Info-vax] Clustering on VMS 4.7

[Wilm Boerhout]

Robert Jarratt vaguely mentioned on 16-4-2009 19:14:
> I have set up a VMS 4.7 machine on SIMH (using the 3900 emulation) but I 
> can't see how to set up clustering. The only cluster-related procedures 
> I have in SYS$MANAGER are MAKEROOT.COM, BOOT_CONFIG.COM and 
> SATELLITE_CONFIG.COM. They all tell me "This system disk is not set up 
> as a cluster system disk." I cannot see how to get started to make the 
> system disk a cluster system disk, can anyone tell me what the first 
> step is?
> 
> NB For those of you following my MicroVAX II saga, while I wait to see 
> if I can get a replacement CPU and memory, I want to get 4.7 going on my 
> simulated 3900 so that I am 100% sure that the DEQNA is supported when I 
> try to net boot off it.

Cluster configuration has come a long way since 4.7, but here's a go:

MAKEROOT would be my first guess for a starting point. If that procedure 
complains about not seeing a cluster-ready disk, the only place to 
revert to is the VMS installation media, and hope that a question gets 
asked there to form a cluster disk.

What is the directory structure on SYS$SYSDEVICE: like? Can you post the 
output from:

$ DIR SYS$SYSDEVICE:[000000...]*.DIR

/Wilm