[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/5/2021 9:16 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 8/5/21 8:38 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> "Everyone" has a laptop supporting VirtualBox.
>>
>> "VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts..."
> 
> Two things:
> 
> 1. Unless it has changed considerably from the last time I ran it for
> anything, VirtualBox is unsuited for any kind of production environment.
> And development of software intended for use in a production environment
> is also production.

Not really.

Development environments are quite different from production environments.

Windows 7 or 10 vs Windows Server 2016 or 2019 is very clear.

Ubuntu or whatever vs RHEL or CentOS / Rocky Linux is also somewhat 
distinct.

> 2, Many people here have expressed their desire to work in a VMS
> environment.  Not Linux, not Mac and certainly not Windows.  For
> one thing, it requires the acquisition of knowledge they may not
> wish to have.  This could be a deal breaker.  Management may see
> it as: "If I have to run Linux in order to run VMS, why am I
> running VMS?"

If you develop for or study VMS then you certainly need
VMS.

But most people will have something else than VMS running
today.

We all know about one exception. But I think that is an exception.

>> 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.
> 
> And that is another issue.  In order to run VMS in a production
> environment you will now have to also run something like VMWare
> in a production environment with all the associated costs of doing
> it.

Pulling in VMWare or similar just to run VMS would certainly
have significant cost.

But most companies already have that in place: VMWare
and/or IaaS cloud. And it will be a cost reduction to move
VMS into the same environment that everything else is
running on.

Arne