[Info-vax] WHY IS VSI REQUIRING A HYPERVISOR FOR X86 OPENVMS?

[John Dallman]

In article <98286971-2cf9-4732-a390-e2fb2e467f1fo at googlegroups.com>,
ultradwc at gmail.com (D W) wrote:

> As for hardware failures I would I think OpenVMS clustering is a 
> far superior solution than the VM solution.

Yes, in some ways. But the VM solution is familiar to most companies' IT
departments, and VMS clustering is not. 

Also, modern x86-64 hardware is /fast/, and a single VMS instance should
be able to do the work of several Alpha boxes, or a couple of Itaniums.
In the common situation where VMS usage has been shrinking as a
proportion of a company's IT, replacing several old machines with a
single VMS VM will be attractive to management. 

John