[Info-vax] satellite with more than one boot server

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Sat Feb 2 22:14:41 EST 2013


On 2/2/2013 1:50 PM, David Froble wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> What's your goal here?   Complexity?  Uptime?   Screwing around?
>
> I long ago formed the conclusion that Philip's goal was to have
> complexity for the sake of complexity.  I've never seen anything that
> he's written that indicated having a cluster served any purpose, other
> than having one just because he could.
>
> But that's Ok.  If it amuses him to form and operate a cluster, he
> should be free to do so.
>
> VMS has many capabilities that I've never felt the need to use.  Mirror
> disks.  RAID.  DECnet V.

If you don't need RAID, it's seldom required.  It can cost serious 
money.  If you do need RAID and fail to install it, you may need a new job!





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