[Info-vax] OpenVMS servers and clusters as a cloud service

[Richard Maher]

On 01-Jan-18 1:01 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <p2bjfs$b3j$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
>> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>> You're creating a more complex variant of just part of what 
>>> sandboxing and provisioning provide.
>>
>> Perhaps.  The question is how one can come up with a more efficient 
>> upgrade mechanism without making it too difficult to adapt existing 
>> configurations.
>>
> 
> Perhaps one just doesn't try to do that.  As Steve has perhaps mentioned 
> once, or twice, or a million times, holding onto the past too hard can 
> really screw up the future.
> 
> If VSI comes up with some better stuff, I for one don't have a problem 
> with a fresh install.  Come to think about it, every x86 VMS system will 
> require a fresh install.
> 

Exactly. There is *no* common system disk save a Desired State image 
copy. And, at least for IaaS, VMS Clusters are dead. The DLM is dead 
unless you can tolerate the irony of licensing Oracle's.