[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-08-05 kl. 14:38, skrev 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.

The same webinar handouts also says about the 9.1 release:

"9.1 overview – what to expect
• Bare metal support (limited)
   – DL380 Gen9 and Gen10 with fibre channel shared storage and Smart Array
   – A “buyer’s guide” will be provided
• ISO installation (no more appliances)"

Then, in a side note to that, it says:

"Didn't quite make it into 9.1 (some driver issues) and will be
made available just as soon as ready, most likely 9.1-A"

And from another page in that PDF it seems as 9.1-A could
be out in "mid August"...