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

[Dave Froble]

On 7/6/2021 6:11 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> 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
>
>

What are you retiring?  DL380 systems?  If so, are they available? 
Might be good systems for running VMS.

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