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

[Bart Zorn]

On Mar 15, 8:50 am, Bart Zorn <Bart.Z... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 14, 5:09 pm, "Hein, Nashua NH" <heinvandenheu... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>    [ S n i p . . . ]
>
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> > 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 . . . ]
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> 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

I can now confirm that the following configuration works:

MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.6
VMware Fusion 2.0.2
two VM's running XP SP3
one is running Personal Alpha with OpenVMS V8.3 and AM V2.6
the other is running AM V2.6 data analyzer.

Both VM's have two network connections, all bridged.

Regards,

Bart