[Info-vax] VSI software

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rgee06$1nr$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> > If Alpha, Itanium, and x86 can be clustered together, why not the latest
> > VMS from HP(E)?  My guess is that for those running clusters, they've
> > been doing rolling upgrades for decades.
> >
> 
> Well, if I needed an answer on this, I'd go directly to VSI.  Perhaps 
> that would require VSI support.
> 
> Hans mentioned that HPe VMS and VSI VMS can be clustered on Alpha and 
> itanic.  I don't know, but if this is currently possible, then one 
> should be able to do a rolling upgrade to VSI VMS on those platforms. 
> One would then think that if you're totally on VSI VMS, inclusion of x86 
> VMS in that cluster might work.

Latest I've heard it's not a software problem but perhaps not possible 
with the Community License.

> However, what's wrong with doing a fresh install.  Contrary to your 
> claims, it is just not that much more work.  Say you're running ODS2 
> disks.  That is still supported.  Any non-system disks are not an issue. 

The main problem, if you like, are customizations.  I've moved as much 
stuff off the system disk as possible.  While much of this is handled by 
defining things in SYLOGICALS.COM (and mounting a non-system disk from 
there and executing procedures on it), there are additional things: 
audit server, opcom, TCPIP, LAT, and a few other things.  So that would 
mean not only a fresh install, but also a copy of the non-system disk to 
test things. 

>   Anything on system disks not part of VMS can be easily copied.  One 
> would hope that you've not intermingled non-VMS data and VMS files in 
> the same directories.  

Perish the thought!

Of course, I'll have to do a fresh install on x86 at some point, so I 
can wait until then to get rid of cruft.  :-|