[Info-vax] Performance benchmarks, was: Re: VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

[Michael Moroney]

clairgrant71 at gmail.com writes:

>I forgot to respond to a comment made a few posts back. Everyone
>(including us)has been saying for years that V8.4 boots on i4 systems.
>That needs to be amended with "V8.4 boots on _some_ i4 systems" because
>on one of the very first i4 blade systems we set up in our lab VMS didn't
>boot at all, crashed on the way up every single time. I assume any
>customer would have run into the same problem. As it turned out the
>problem was not even specific to i4 but managed to cause a problem in 
>this configuration.

Yup. I went trough a long round of "try this test image"/reboot/crash/
reboot/"here's the dump" with the appropriate guru on this.

Also, if your blade did boot, you may not be able to use it for much 
without a LAN.