[Info-vax] Clustering on VMS 4.7

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Thu Apr 16 16:12:00 EDT 2009


Bob Gezelter wrote:
> On Apr 16, 12:14 pm, "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
> 
> Rob,
> 
> I would have to check my old (very old) documentation sets, but are
> you SURE that 4.7 did clusters?
> 
> And not simply sharing the use of an HSC50 (with each volume dedicated
> to a single system).
> 
> - Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

I think that clustering was available with late V3.x or early V4.x. 
ISTR that V3.7 had clustering support.



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