[Info-vax] Multi-site OpenVMS field upgrade options?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-04-12 17:08:42 +0000, Rod Regier said:

> re: float systems for "pseudo hardware upgrade" approach.
> 
> It would also be necessary to source and acquire large numbers of "old 
> new stock" 80 pin SCSI drives for the DS10L, DS15 and RX2600 units. 
> (two per system)
> That's a serious challenge given that such disk products have ceased 
> manufacture several years ago.

Scrounge some SCSI adapters.  I'd expect that David Turner at Island 
can acquire these for you.

> The drives on the second system would need to be "long term production quality"
> since it would be too dangerous to move the new data on the second node 
> back to the old drives on the first node later.

Given the antiquated vintage of those same servers?  Those boxes are 
all getting pretty old, after all.



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