[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Rich Jordan]

On Monday, December 17, 2018 at 3:47:28 PM UTC-6, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 12/17/2018 1:00 PM, Rich Jordan wrote:
> > I've wondered if DEC, or now VSI could make a minimal 'quorum node'
> > to live on the network and do nothing but the bare minumum to be a
> > low resource low cost (and low hindrance) 'vote' for a LAVC.  Some of
> > our customers kept an old VAX or VAXstation around for that purpose
> > when they downsized from VAX/11 systems with star couplers and HSCs
> > to microVAXen or early Alpha LAVCs; they did nothing any more but act
> > as the third node.
> >
> 
> I'm going to suggest that such an idea isn't worthwhile today.  In the 
> past, yes.
> 
> With the rather low cost of x86 stuff, without any special work, having 
> a third compute engine would be easier, and cheaper.  No special work 
> for VSI, or anyone.
> 
> Got to be ready to re-look at things, based on what can be done today.
> 
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Dave
     the hardware is cheap.  That third cluster license is not.  If a quorum-only node license cost a tiny fraction of a full node then you can build a non-shared-storage two node LAVC without a master/slave node without having to pay for a third full cluster member.  Thats the only reason for it; if its going to cost full cluster node price, then you are correct that its not worth it.