[Info-vax] Clustering on VMS 4.7

[Bill Pechter]

In article <GrudnQmgCYmanHTUnZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
>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!

Wait... I think I installed that 11/750. 8-)

Well... what I want is the old VMS versions and products to run on the 11/780 
emulator.

I'd really like to sit down and see if I could still run the old Diags from
memory. (Yeah I know they're HP proprietary and not released... geez.  I
Wish they'd cut loose an old diag tape image for the 11/780's...).

How much money do they make from fixing Vaxes these days?

What good is the ability to boot with the R5 flag set to 10
without diags... (is my memory still good) 8-)

bill

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