[Info-vax] Clustering on VMS 4.7

[H Vlems]

On 16 apr, 19:14, "Robert Jarratt" <nos... at nosp.am> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob

When you installed 4.7, did the installation procedure prompt you with
the question whether the system would be part of a cluster?
Later VMS versions did do that and since V5.something, even if you
answered NO, the system may be converted afterwards as a
clustermember.
But IIRC this was not so easy in V4.7 and earlier releases. It had to
do with directory backlinks, I'm guessing here.... Anyway, once the
question was answered, you were stuck with the result or reinstall.
Hans