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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-07-07 kl. 00:11, skrev 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.

You mean for "bare metal" use? How many customers are looking at bare
metal use? According to the talk we had with a VSI representative
last week, there are almost no customer that expects to *not* run
VMS x86-64 in a virtualized environment of some kind.

> How many DL380's use SATA?

Does it matter if you run virtualized?

> I ask that knowing how many hundred my team has been retiring the
> past couple years.
> 
> Zane
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