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

[D W]

On Monday, January 11, 2021 at 2:03:34 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

no that is not true. For a small fee Process Software will modify tcpware to allow their decnet over IP to run over an SSH tunnel. I considered doing that with my 33 node decnet over IP connections years ago.