[Info-vax] Distant Cluster?

[Christoph Gartmann]

Hello,

I have a few Alphas, all booting from a common system disk, running OpenVMS
7.3-2 and connected via LAN.

Next, there are two Itanium boxes in a different building, each having its own
system disk. These are members of the cluster as well.

There is a shadowed disk consisting of a physical disk connected to one of the
Itaniums and a physical disk connected to one of the Alphas. The common cluster
files reside on this disk.

Now it is possible to shutdown all the Alphas, the Itanium boxes continue to
run and vice versa. But if the network connection between the two sites drops,
the Itaniums crash. Why?

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann
 
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