[Info-vax] Clustering on VMS 4.7

[Bill Pechter]

In article <JuKdnc4eTc7iDHrUnZ2dnUVZ_ghi4p2d at giganews.com>,
Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
>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.

The clustering support was definitely good by 4.2 (IIRC).
I seem to think it was less than fully stable and implemented in the 3.7 day
with each version of vms adding more features.

Bill


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