[Info-vax] HP Integrity rx2800 i4 (2.53GHz/32.0MB) :: PAKs won't load

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-02-28 kl. 21:32, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
> On 2016-02-28 18:42:04 +0000, Kerry Main said:
>
>> the key differentiators of OpenVMS Cluster design is support for either
>> active-active or active-passive shared everything architectures.
>
> How'd that work out for DEC, BTW?
>
> Ayup, the product does matter.   But so does the ease of use and the
> configuration and management and maintenance interfaces and tools,
> availability of staff and of tools and applications, the product price, a
> path for revenues for the third-party vendors, integration with the
> existing environments and staff, and — yes — marketing.   Among other details.
>
> But back to my original comments here — clustering is a mess to manage and
> maintain.   Beyond the files, there's a small forest of system parameters
> that generally need to be dealt with, too.   Then there's stuff like
> whether a swapfile even still matters — how many folks are seeing swapping
> these days, after all?    But I digress.    Sure, great products are
> great.   Great products that are difficult to manage and to use and to
> maintain... tend to be rather less great and rather less successful.
>
> Hey VSI, please remember to put the biggest product announcement you've
> ever done — the upcoming V8.4-2 — all across the entire front page of your
> web site.  Don't bury it in a footnote somewhere.

After some browing around the pages (nothing under About->News or
on the front page, see "Updates") I found this:


Feb 22, 2016 - VSI Update 13
VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2 Field Test Wrapping Up!

VSI is wrapping up efforts on the external field test of our latest
release, with active participation from 42 testers around the world.

The release, which will officially be called VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2 when
it becomes generally available in late March, offers some exciting
new features including 64 core support for BL890c i4 systems, inclusion
of the latest UEFI 2.3 platform firmware (modernization that was long
overdue), and tunable Backup compression. In addition we’ve introduced
VSI’s Enterprise Directory 5.7 and updated the Secure Web Server (based
on Apache 2.4.12).

As part of this release, we’ll support upgrades to VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2
from HPE versions as far back as HPE v8.3, and will add the Integrity
x7640 and x8640 to the list of HPE servers on which customers can run
VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2. As with our previous release, we’ve received
positive customer feedback about the new features and improvements
we’ve made, and we look forward to sharing this new release with
our user base.