[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-01-11 18:55:17 +0000, D W said:

> ...so are we saying here that decnet over a fibre channel connection is 
> the fastest solution?

DECnet does not operate over Fibre Channel connections.

OpenVMS does not support Fibre Channel for Host-Bus-Adapter-to-HBA 
host-to-host communications.

OpenVMS does support Fibre Channel for HBA-to-storage.

FC is a cluster storage connection, not a cluster communications connection.

In this case, moving Rdb activity co-resident with the web server 
within a cluster *might* provide better performance, if it's 
Rdb-to-database that's the constraint.

Without far more details on what's going on here, scale, load, budget, 
current bottlenecks, budget, security risks, etc., there's little in 
the way of recommendations.

And I'd discourage the use of DECnet in any new configuration 
generally, as DECnet links are unencrypted and unauthenticated.


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