[Info-vax] Clustering on VMS 4.7

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Pechter wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

I think I was up to V4.4 (at least) before I had enough machines to 
cluster.  For a short time I had a three node cluster consisting of VAX 
11/750, VAXstation 2000, and VAXstation 3100.  Somewhere along there we 
scrapped the 11/750!