[Info-vax] Migrating OpenVMS to a Fiber Channel storage device.

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-12-21 05:33:15 +0000, Jerome Ibanes said:

> Our ES47 currently has two fiber channel cards, as such:
> ...
> The system runs OpenVMS 8.4 from dkc0 (HP 146GB at 15k drive), my goal 
> would be to "copy" the contents of this block device to a lun of an 
> equal size on the (netapp) SAN.

Boot from the CD or boot from another VMS system root somewhere, and 
BACKUP /IMAGE the disk from the brick to the SAN.

> Would there be an easier alternative to boot from a SAN (I imagine 
> installing OpenVMS directly to a SAN isn't an option but please correct 
> me if I'm wrong).

VMS can be installed onto FC SAN devices.  Check the installation 
manual for details on the sequence.

<http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/84final/ba322_90087/ba322_90087.pdf>

Chapter 3 and Appendix E will be of interest.

Here <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/786> is some Alpha SRM WWIDMGR 
information, including an overview of using quickset, and some links to 
the documentation for and the limitations of quickset.   You might not 
be able to use quickset here, depending on details of your 
configuration.   This WWIDMGR morass is how you convince the SRM 
console to map the SAN morass to a VMS device name that it (SRM) can 
then make visible to VMS, which then allows the rest of the stack to 
work.



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