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

[huw.davies at kerberos.davies.net.au]

Bart Zorn <Bart.Zorn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!

I recently did a demonstration of a four node OpenVMS cluster where
each node was running in a separate VM (a Xen domU) with Windows and 
Personal Alpha. I then ran AM on another laptop (Windows) to show off
all the various AM features. The advantage of using the VM approach was
two fold - fewer systems running in my home office and ease of causing
'system' crashes by simply stopping the domUs.
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