[Info-vax] Data Center Operations: DC/OS, Apache Mesos

[Stephen Hoffman]

There have been suggestions here in the comp.os.vms newsgroup that 
OpenVMS head toward a distributed data center operating system, and 
there have been a few discussions both here in comp.os.vms and at the 
2015 OpenVMS boot camp around adding support for containers on OpenVMS 
(both as containers and in the guise of app stacking).

If that sounds interesting, have a look at Mesoshere's DC/OS:  
https://dcos.io/docs/1.7/overview/what-is-dcos/

As dealing with all that is part of what Apache Mesos — the 
underpinnings of DC/OS — provides.  http://mesos.apache.org

Through Mesos, DC/OS allows scheduling on local boxes through various 
means, as well as on AWS and Azure services.

FWIW, the "When you’re operating a datacenter, there are a set of 
common operations that you do because you have to, not because you want 
to. In a single computer environment, your operating system 
automatically takes care of these things. When was the last time you 
had to manually tell your laptop which processor core to run your 
application on?  For those of you who responded with anything other 
than “never”, there are some amazing computers at the Computer History 
Museum that you might want to check out." line was good for a chuckle.

No, I haven't seen a port of Mesos to OpenVMS, and I'd tend to expect 
the down-standard C++ support on OpenVMS probably lacks a few features 
necessary for the port.

But maybe this gives some of you some idea of where parts of the 
high-end and data center computing markets are already headed.


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