[Info-vax] Availability Manager, was: Re: Production VMS cluster hanging with lots of LEFO

[Bart Zorn]

On Mar 14, 5:09 pm, "Hein, Nashua NH" <heinvandenheu... at gmail.com>
wrote:

   [ S n i p . . . ]

> Oddly enough it was right after finally install Personal Alpha on my
> laptop.
> It seemed a good idea to be able to look back into itself using
> Availability Manager.
> What else was I actually going to 'do' with it?  (1)
>
> Sure enough, after a little poking with a loop-back connector driver,
> and maybe a (software) network bridge it all worked.
> I thought it was pretty cool to have a console, a telnet session, and
> an outside monitor tool looking at my this non-existing Alpha.
> Next I enabled it on my oher servers and voila!
>
> I may or may not work on Linux or Mac. It's mostly (only?) Java best I
> can tell.
> But I would take te road of least resistance which for me means to
> take a crappy PC with a reasonable network card and allow it to run
> (not-)OS you love to hate, disabling all the clutter it can bring.
> Then RDP into that from your favourite desktop.
> I suspect using a VM solution will be tricky as Availability Manager
> uses a private wire protocol with broadcasts and stuff.

   [ S n i p . . . ]

Although I did not try AM on a VM, I am pretty sure that it will work.
Using VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro, I can run two Windows VM's,
each running Personal Alpha and cluster those two together, even
running with a common system disk. If SCS gets through all this
emulated network, I am sure that the AMDS protocol gets through as
well!

Anyway, I will add AM to this configuration and see what happens.

Regards,

Bart Zorn