[Info-vax] Multiple OpenVMS instances on HPVM?

[lars.flagan at gmail.com]

Based in North Europe. Depending on how we decide to go forward we might have 20 DS15 machines to offload

A few driving factors for us is

-Aging HW 
-Want to get rid of old EVA SAN which we pay crazy maintenance money for. OpenVMS 8.3 is not compatible with new 3par SAN.
-Moving DR site to 3.party


So from your advice we've been looking at the following scenario: 

Replace DEV & Test environments with BL860c i4 Blades as we already have spare slots in blade chassis.

Replace stage and production with RX2800 i4 rack servers. Reasoning for going for rack servers in these environments are planed move of DR site to third party. We figure it is easier to rent rack space than blade slots.

Does this seem like a sound approach?

Not sure how licencing of minor version upgrades with OpenVMS works, but we also need to move to 8.4 to support new SAN.