[Info-vax] VSI VMS Community License Program - PAKS Arrived today

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rh3tv4$jgj$1 at dont-email.me>, "John H. Reinhardt"
<johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> writes: 

> True.  Hardware RAID gets you disk mirroring within each server, but
> if you want volume shadowing across MSCP disks and Clusters (which you
> can't do either on Itanium) then you are out of luck. 

It's not just for multi-site disaster-tolerant clusters, which probably 
no hobbyist has, but also so that the cluster can continue running if 
one of those machines which has been running for 20 or 25 years fails.  
It also allows one to reboot one machine without taking down the 
cluster.