[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/13/2021 4:57 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

I find that hard to see.

Web services need:
* low cost HW
* low cost OS & web SW
* uptodate web SW

Arne