[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Zane H. Healy]

issinoho <iain at issinoho.com> wrote:
>   VSI TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS x86_64 Version X6.0
>   on a VMware, Inc. VMware7,1 running OpenVMS E9.2-1
> 
> I've found the DHCP functionality pretty broken in this - I'm assuming
> it's TCPIP 6 rather than anything to do with x86, but who knows...
> 
> DHCP assigns the interface address and routing fine, but Bind doesn't get
> Configured or Enabled.  Doing this manually gets things working, however
> as soon as a reboot kicks off the DHCP process again, Bind loses it's
> settings.  Strangely, this also means that the result of a "show network"
> command displays an unconfigured IP stack even when it's working.
> 
> Moving to static IP fixes all of the above.

Last night, I brought up TCPIP with DHCP, and was able to connect to the
system just fine.  So at least very basic DHCP seemed to work.  Having said
that one of the first things I did this morning was to convert to a Static
IP, as I have DNS setup for my home network.

I did have quite a bit of trouble getting everything setup, but everything
was related to configuring the VM to run VMS.  I'm running on a VMware
cluster on ESXI 6.7, and my HP DL380 Gen7 is too old to run VMS.  I ended up
having to use a "HP ProDesk 600 G1 SFF" that is one of the other two nodes
as the physical machine to run the VM.  After that, the key issue I ran into
was configuring a Serial Port, and to do that I had to log into the ESXI
server directly, as I was unable to add a serial port to the VM from
vSphere.

Zane