[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Scott Dorsey]

Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
>Clustering is one way to provide data access across software 
>upgrades—the app requirements around writing a clustering-capable and 
>particularly around writing an app capable of its own rolling upgrades 
>are very poorly documented, but are possible—and across server 
>failures.  This access when configured with multi-host shared-write 
>storage hardware and/or with software-based shared-write RAID-1 HDD or 
>SSD storage.  The multi-host software RAID-1 can operate atop hardware 
>RAID, though hardware RAID is far from a unique feature.

Note that what people outside the VMS world mean by "clustering" is not
the same thing, and often involves loosely-coupled multiprocessing systems
for computationally-intensive tasks.  However, DEC used the word first and
we are stuck with it, in spite of the unfortunate overlay.
--scott


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