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

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 7/5/2021 11:48 AM, chris wrote:
> On 07/02/21 18:29, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> 
>>
>> 1.32 SupportedDiskTypes
>> 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.
>>
>>
> 
> Find that odd. SATA are consumer quality, 5400 or 7200 rpm. so slow
> access compared to U320 scsi or sas at 10 or 15k...
> 
> Chris
> 

You're thinking physical drives.  V9.1 is virtual only at the moment.  Most Hypervisors provide virtual SCSI and SATA interfaces.  The Enterprise versions of ESXi might have virtual SAS interfaces but I don't have access to them to know.  VMware Fusion (Mac) and Oracle Virtualbox don't.  Why it doesn't support virtual SCSI, I don't know.  You would think that would already be just about built in given all the years of SCSI support in OpenVMS.  Maybe we are just being to literal.  I would imagine the SAS interface will come when some future version 9.1-x supports physical hardware.

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John H. Reinhardt