[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS V9.1 Field Test beginning.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sboj0u$nfb$1 at dont-email.me>, "John H. Reinhardt"
<johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> writes: 

> On 7/2/2021 12:37 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > In article <sbnids$4o7$1 at dont-email.me>, "John H. Reinhardt"
> > <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> writes:
> > 
> >> VSI OpenVMS x86-64 V9.1 only supports SATA disks. Support for other
> > disk types will be added in future releases of VSI OpenVMS x86-64.
> > 
> > I had always assumed that I would have a mixed cluster and add some x86
> > disks to shadow sets, then removed the SCSI members and the nodes
> > hosting them one by one until everything is new.  If x86 will support
> > SCSI, could I plug my Top-Gun Blue 40 MB/s SCSI disks in the Top-Gun
> > Blue BA356 boxes into x86?
> > 
> 
>  From the OpenVMS x86 Release notes:
> 
>    2. Hardware Support
>    Direct support for x86-64 hardware systems (models to be specified) will be added in later releases.
> 
> 
> Not initially.  The current release of FT9.1 only runs on virtual
> hosts.  While you could probably get a SCSI card to go into whatever
> machine you use as a virtual host, you'd need some sort of pass thru
> connection to get those SCSI disks to the OpenVMS 

I plan to wait for bare metal in any case.

> The field test V9.1 does support MSCP served disks, however so *iof*
> you can cluster with an Alpha, then it could serve the disks such that
> the x86 OpenVMS can access them. 

Presumably MSCP-served disks will always be supported.  That's what I 
was thinking of originally: use MSCP to serve all disks to all nodes, 
then make shadow sets of SCSI members on Alpha and whatever is available 
on x86.