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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-07-05 16:48:38 +0000, chris said:

> 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...

I can get ~half a gigabyte per second through a single SATA storage 
connection, sequential read or sequential write, on widely-available 
SATA (SATA 3.0 / SATA 6Gp/s) storage hardware.

Dragging across your existing HDDs—whether IDE/PATA, SATA, SCSI, USB 
2.0, DSA, DSSI, MASSBUS, or otherwise—over to OpenVMS x86-64 isn't a 
great idea, either.

And at least for now, the hypervisor can usually "hide" modern HDDs and 
SSD capacities from that pesky OpenVMS 2 TiB limit, too. Might even be 
able to "hide" NAS storage, donno yet.


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