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

[Andrew Brehm]

On 20/12/2020 21:53, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <i49hq6Ft1lbU1 at mid.individual.net>, Andrew Brehm
> <ajbrehm at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Assuming that you have such existing hardware.  So, cheaper for those
> already rich.  :-|
> 

You mean in case one runs a company without computers and wants to 
introduce OpenVMS. In that case you wouldn't have existing hardware.

But most companies I know already have an IT infrastructure or at least 
unwilling to build one that cannot be shared with other OS.

Where I work it is certainly much cheaper and quicker to order a VM and 
install an OS than to order a physical server and install an OS. For one 
thing, the former is fully automatted already and can easily be adapted 
to another OS.

-- 
Andrew Brehm