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

[Zane H. Healy]

John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
> 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.

Since the HPE DL380 gen 9's and 10's are a platform they're planning to
support, I can't imagine them not supporting SAS.  How many DL380's use
SATA?  I ask that knowing how many hundred my team has been retiring the
past couple years.

Zane