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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-01-06 17:15:17 +0000, Kerry Main said:

> Google scale ...

Google scale is utterly irrelevant to OpenVMS.  It's also a distraction 
in any discussion of hosting a few instances of OpenVMS somewhere, and 
of the issues associated with remote deployments.  Whether those 
deployments are to internal or external hosting.

Getting OpenVMS to deal better with a handful of hosts in hosted 
deployments for existing end-users is going to be a decent-sized 
development project.  The existing default installations are far too 
manual, and require remote console serial access before having a viable 
network host for any remaining customizations.

Beyond supporting some disk images and tools available for 
smaller-scale deployments (which is probably a stretch goal for VSI 
right now, given other priorities), getting OpenVMS to be viable and 
profitable choice for and by major providers for mass deployments into 
their own data centers and for their own use; augmenting existing Linux 
and Windows Server deployments?   That'll requires OpenVMS 
infrastructure and integration and which presently does not exist, as 
well as substantial updates to apps and management and development 
tools.

Deploying whole racks of OpenVMS servers or boxes of OpenVMS cartridges 
en-mass?  We're not there yet.  Not even close.  Google scale?  I've 
had really ugly shuffles getting even single-host OpenVMS 
configurations booted remotely.

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