[Info-vax] WHY IS VSI REQUIRING A HYPERVISOR FOR X86 OPENVMS?

[Andrew Brehm]

On 18/12/2020 17:41, superseth369 at gmail.com wrote:
> This adds more cost. Why can't it run by itself on x86?
> Or am I misunderstanding that you do not have to buy vmware or some other
> VM to run it?
> 

I don't see that they are requiring a hypervisor.

But I also don't see your point. In my experience bare metal 
requirements cost more money because you need to buy and support/install 
extra hardware for the platform. With a hypervisor you can just add 
OpenVMS instances on your existing hardware.

Where I work every bare metal server is a hassle. VMs deploy 
automatically and there is no need to worry about the hardware. If the 
hardware fails, VMs are moved to or restarted on different hardware. An 
actual hypervisor _requirement_ would be perfect for us as it would cut 
down on support costs and time.

But OpenVMS will, so they say, support both some HPE and Dell hardware 
and some hypervisors, and all the supported hypervisors are available as 
free editions as well as paid.

While VirtualBox is not a production environment VMM, both KVM and 
vSphere are and all three can be free.

You can then install OpenVMS on your HPE hardware or install a free ESXi 
on it or a free Linux with KVM and then OpenVMS. Where's the problem?

-- 
Andrew Brehm