[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-08-05 kl. 14:14, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> In article <segcga$g9$1 at dont-email.me>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
> writes:
> 
>> And anyway, most VMS sites already have the VM admins in other groups
>> that does the VM config and just present you with the VM environment.
>>
>> When the VM is ready there should be very few differences from a bare
>> metal VMS installation.
>>
>> If you are a single person shop, use VirtualBox. Just as easy as any
>> PC application to install and in it self way easier then to run VMS.
> 
> Wearing my hobbyist hat, that means that I would have to have some other
> OS running on the machine in order to install VirtualBox?  I can see it
> working fine in terms of logging in and getting to the DCL prompt.  But
> what about things like clustering (not between instances of VirtualBox
> on the same hardware, but between different physical machines), HBVS,
> and so on?
> 

"Everyone" has a laptop supporting VirtualBox.

"VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts..."

I do not see why clusters and HBVS would not work in an VirtualBox
environment. Not with physical shared disks of course, but over
the network.

In the PDF from the last Webinar there is a SHOW CLUSTER output
shown having 10 nodes:
2 nodes with V9.1 (x86 in a VM)
2 nodes with 8.4-1H1 (older IA64)
2 nodes with 8.4-2L2 (should be Alpha, I think)
4 nodes with 8.4-2L3 (latest IA64)

This might use some other VM environment than VirtualBox, but from
the VMS point of view that should not matter, as far as I understand.