[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Rich Jordan]

On May 23, 2:27 pm, Keith Cayemberg <keith.cayemb... at arcor.de> wrote:
> On May 23, 7:50 pm, Rich Jordan <jor... at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
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> > On May 16, 4:38 pm, Rich Jordan <jor... at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
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> > > On May 13, 11:59 am, Rich Jordan <jor... at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
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> > > > On May 10, 6:21 pm, Rich Jordan <jor... at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
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> > > > > On May 10, 1:54 pm, abrsvc <dansabrservi... at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > This is the best so far at my current site.  This would be longer had
> > > > > > we not moved datacenters...
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> > > > > > OpenVMS V7.1-2  on node xxx  10-MAY-2011 13:52:46.60  Uptime  842
> > > > > > 20:38:06
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> > > > > > Can anyone beat this?
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> > > > > VAX/VMS V6.1   on node ZZZZ   10-May-2011 18:09:43.10   Uptime  991
> > > > > 09:42:37
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> > > > > Boottime = 22-AUG-2008 08:07:46.08
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> > > > > We're cheering for 1000 though that would not be a record for this box
> > > > > (close to 1500 days).  They always lose it to a powerfail that
> > > > > outlasts the backup power, or once to replace an internal drive.
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> > > >  VAX/VMS V6.1   on node ZZZZ   13-May-2011 11:49:04.41   Uptime  994
> > > > 03:21:58
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> > > > Next Thursday is the next 'big day'.  Unfortunately its spring storm
> > > > season, but we're hoping for the best. It has ridden out a couple
> > > > outages already that weren't too long.
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> > > > And a plug:  TMESIS UPShot provides UPS support on this box.  Works
> > > > great, potentially saved the data a couple times in the past when
> > > > power was out too long.
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> > >  VAX/VMS V6.1   on node ZZZZ   16-May-2011 16:30:39.42   Uptime  997
> > > 08:03:33
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> > > getting close ;)
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> > VAX/VMS V6.1  on node ZZZZ  23-MAY-2011 12:37:14.49   Uptime  1004
> > 04:10:08
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> > Survived the storms.  I don't know if we (including customers) will
> > ever get a chance to leave a system up this long again; certainly not
> > the wintels.
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> Congratulations Rich!
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> Here is another grade school aged OpenVMS System.
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> $ show sys/noproc
> OpenVMS V7.2-1  on node ZZZZ  23-MAY-2011 21:15:36.98  Uptime  1848
> 09:19:49
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> $ whenis -1848
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> 1848 Days in the PAST is Monday - May 1st, 2006
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> This is the standalone system time, not the cluster time. The system
> is in a tire factory running 5 important CIM/CAM applications 24/7
> including several Oracle Rdb and Sybase Databases.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Keith Cayemberg

Keith,
    congrats!  Thats a great uptime!  I'm not sure we or a customer
ever made it that long without a powerfail or other mandatory down.

     Our customer's standalone VAX system used to be their core
business server, running all custom apps.  They've moved most things
to a lesser environment, but still do accounting and payroll since the
systems were so customized to their needs, and nothing 'generic' out
there can really replace it without a lot of changes ($$$$$$) or major
changes to their business processes.  So it is still in daily use.

     It was upgraded to most recent ECOs for V6.1 a year before the
last reboot, and most recent TCPware that was supported.  It is not
internet accessible, and there have been no security issues ever.
Stable, mature, business critical, and still supported by us and a
hardware maintenance vendor.