[Info-vax] MSA1000 / VMS / Linux

[Rich Jordan]

On Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 1:10:40 PM UTC-6, Alan Frisbie wrote:
> I would like to share my MSA1000 between my VMS system(s) and Linux. 
> Has anyone here done this? Can it be done at all? 
> 
> Are there any problems I should look out for? Is any software 
> required on the Linux side beyond what is normally on an Ubuntu 
> installation? 
> 
> Also, my MSA1000 has the older MSA Fabric Switch 6 rather than the 
> newer MSA SAN Switch 2/8. Are there any problems I should be aware 
> of with these? 
> 
> If it cannot be shared, what would you recommend that can do it? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Alan Frisbie

We have a customer still running an MSA1000 based cluster storage with two VMS Alphaservers in a fully redundant dual-connection setup.  Sorry, no experience running multiplatform on it

The fiber switch 2/8 are fragile; if he gets an A/C failure or UPS bad power down he's got a 50/50 chance of losing one.
The controllers list multiple sets of profiles for the connections including VMS, Windows, etc, and I think Sun Solaris and other third party.
There are ACL controls to restrict which units are accessible to which connections, so it appears you should be able to keep Linux paws off the VMS units and vice versa (assuming it works...)