[Info-vax] Multiple OpenVMS instances on HPVM?

[Forster, Michael]

If your DB or other application and/or DB vendors still only support HPE and Gen 2 IA64 vs VSI on Gen 4 IA64 then you don't have a choice. GE Healthcare and Intersystems. Or additionally fail to support Process Software MultiNet. Even though MultiNet is legacy and proven.


Michael Forster
Enterprise Storage and IDX Architect | Information Services
Medical College of Wisconsin
O: (414) 955-4967 |  mforster at mcw.edu


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On 2016-10-03 17:15:34 +0000, lars.flagan at gmail.com said:

> ....
> Does this seem like a sound approach?

Ayup....   You're probably also either headed toward consolidation —
fewer Integrity servers — or maybe toward lower-end used new-to-you
Itanium boxes, if you really need twenty separate servers for some
particular local configuration requirement(s).  Again, watch the noise
levels as many of the Integrity servers are quite loud.   This if you
have folks working near those servers.

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

To at least V8.4, and — given the details of what's happened with HPE
and VSI and OpenVMS, and given new or new-to-you hardware involved —
you'll want to acquire VSI licenses and not HPE licenses for OpenVMS.
HPE ends at V8.4 and little new is planned, and HPE is delivering on
their roadmap to exit the OpenVMS business.   VSI presently has three
releases out after V8.4 with V8.4-2L1 being the most current, and work
on further new releases and on a port to x86-64.   Why from VSI?   If
you purchase HPE licenses for OpenVMS (as opposed to licenses directly
or indirectly from VSI), you'll have to re-purchase VSI licenses just
as soon as you want to upgrade past V8.4.  Integrity i4 Poulson
requires a release after V8.4, as will the upcoming Integrity i6
Kittson series.   Beyond some hardware enablement and such happening in
V8.4, the newer OpenVMS releases past V8.4 are where all updates and
new work is happening.

Contact the VSI sales folks directly.  If they're not already contacting you.



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