[Info-vax] New VSI Community license PAK

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 10/20/2020 12:37 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rmn6v2$sci$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 
>>> Maybe the EV6 requirement was for the version of Alpha which will
>>> cluster with x86.
>>>
>>
>> That doesn't make any sense.
>>
>> At the level of clustering the individual system architecture should not
>> matter.  Just the capabilities of the software.
> 
> I need to come up with a migration path from mixed EV56/EV6 cluster with
> VMS 7.3-2 and 8.4 to VMS auf x86.  It can't be done in one step.
> 
> The basic idea is to build a mixed-architecture cluster with HBVS
> members on nodes of both types, then gradually move to shadowset members
> only on x86 nodes then move to only x86 nodes.
> 
> I can't cluster what I have now with x86 VMS.  I at least have to go to
> VSI VMS.  But I'm pretty sure that I have to go to EV6 for that.  So
> maybe it's not clustering which requires an architecture, but rather
> clustering (in the special case of mixed versions and mixed
> architectures) requiring a version of VMS which in turn requires some
> minimum hardware version.
> 
> Even if I could plug my SBB disks into x86, I wouldn't do it, since I
> still need a mixed-architecture cluster to compile and compare before
> switching off the ALPHAs.  (This is similar to how I went from VAX to
> Alpha.)
> 

VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 which is what VSI gives to the CLP users is compatible with EV56 and up Alphas.  It's V8.4-2L2 which is EV6 and up so you should be okay.

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John H. Reinhardt