[Info-vax] The VSI Hobbyist program is Live!

[IanD]

So the hobbyist licence disallows setting up a cluster?

That's a shame if that's the case

I learnt a fair bit experience wise doing this with the HP alpha version of their hobbyist program, playing with shadow sets, breaking a cluster by forcing certain things and then trying to work out how to recover

I ran it on an esxi host on windows using an emulator and set up a 3 node cluster with shadow sets etc. Slow as hell but still fun

Nothing commercial but I did loosely model it on a setup in a place I was working as I used the cluster 'experience' gained to be more confident in being ready for various calamities that may have arisen in that workplace

I had rdb running in the cluster. Would liked to have got acms going but I didn't week with it anymore so let that one slide

I'm looking for the equivalent in the VSI hobbyist program, non commercial but fully expandable including clustering

While I don't support the loose wording and perhaps misunderstood meaning of allowing VSI to connect and poke around on a hobbyist system, I would fully comply with and have no issues with VSI at any point in time requesting any logs, audit files, configuration files, listings etc of anything running on any hobbyist system I would care to run and would comply with that information being supplied within a reasonable timeframe

VSI are not the enemy here and I'm sure over time will further tweak the licensing of the hobbyist program or at least that would be my hope

In my workplace, I just discovered there is a specialty OS division that apparently is running OpenVMS.
I was thinking of contacting them and letting them know that I've worked with OpenVMS for many years and can assist should they ever want the help.

Using the hobbyist program to refresh my skills would be one way I could help keep OpenVMS sightly more viable in the workplace by increasing the knowledge base

I don't use OpenVMS anymore in my immediate job, sad, but I still would like to keep my skills up by using it at home and using it in a clustered configuration, if the hobbyist program disallows this then that's disappointing and I guess I'll just have to wait until such a time that it does