[Info-vax] Current limitations os VMS X86?

[Stefan Möding]

Hi Hans!

Hans Bachner <hans at bachner.priv.at> writes:

> My latest informations says, that you can't use a shared SCSI disk as
> a system disk when running under VMware. 

That's also what I understand from the installation manual.  The
clustering manual is also only referring to Alpha or Itanium.

> I think you *can* use a fibre channel disk as a shared system disk.

And this would be on bare metal or also on VMware (using a raw device
instead of a VMDK)?


> No, (acess to) a serial port on the ESXi host is not required. You
> define a serial port for the VM you want to use for VMS, and connect
> to that via a raw TCP/IP port.

I was referring to the TCP/IP port.  But this would force the VM to stay
on the same ESXi host.  I could live with that if it was only necessary
during installation.

A VMware cluster normally migrates VMs between ESXi hosts to optimize
resources.  Even restarting the VM on a different ESXi host after hardware
failure would be more complicated if the console would have to be
"rewired" on the new host first.

There seems to be a serial port concentrator software for VMware that
allows VM migration.  But that's a licenced product from yet another
company.

Thanks!

-- 
Stefan