[Info-vax] HP SAN switch question

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-02-18 16:31:15 +0000, Kerry Main said:

> Imho, once OpenVMS is available on ProLiants, HPE will become more 
> interested in OpenVMS as HPE will not care what OS is running as long 
> as it has ProLiant on the front of the server.
> 

IMHO, server commoditization will continue, and HPE will become another 
server vendor competing for generic server hardware sales.

HPE might deign to perform or fund the testing of specific models of 
ProLiant with OpenVMS (analogous to what happened with Solaris and 
Linux distros and the associated testing), though OpenVMS will be 
little more than a rounding error in the HPE server and storage sales.  
 Other vendors and quite possibly some hosting providers may or will do 
some qualification, too.   I'd be surprised if Nemonix didn't get into 
this business.

I've seen HPE recommending with and assisting with various application 
ports off of OpenVMS and over on ProLiant, and then the replacement 
generation deploys on SuperMicro, Dell or some other vendor.   Several 
of the customers involved were (separately) marveling at how HPE was 
assisting their own customers over to a platform that they'd inevitably 
lose control of.    (But that's what short-term requirements and 
conflicting sales goals and multiple cost centers tends to produce, 
too.)

This all assuming that VSI doesn't go to OpenVMS-specific x86-64 
servers, and that can also run Windows or Linux x86-64.    Possibly in 
conjunction with Nemonix and/or with other corporate partners.   There 
is  precedent for this, of course.  Might also mean the end of the 
OE-like PAKs, too.


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