[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>In article <sho5ts$lt3$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
><davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 
>
>> Yes, there are multiple reasons to run a VMS cluster.  But compute 
>> resources for the most part is no longer one of those reasons.
>
>There are certainly many big VMS customers who run clusters partly for 
>increased computing power.  Of course, disaster tolerance, rolling 
>upgrades, and so on are also reasons.

In the case of web services, clusters get you improved reliability, more
CPU, but most importantly more I/O.  The thing is, few people are using
VMS for web services, and that's a shame because it's something where it
could do well.
--scott
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