[Info-vax] NET-APP-SUP-250 Alpha license question

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2024-08-09 20:47:51 +0000, Richard Jordan said:

> Can anyone confirm if the VAX or Alpha NET-APP-SUP-250 licensing VAX- 
> or VMSCluster support is for the full cluster support, or the client 
> one that does not let the system it is on provide a vote towards quorum?
> 
> The info I've found so far is generic and doesn't state it clearly 
> (shows the same working for cluster support for -250, -300, and -400).
> 
> Looking at waking up a long dormant box (assuming it works) to act as a 
> vote-only node in a 3 node LAVC that is likely to lose its old an 
> cranky   shared storage.


NAS client 150 was cluster client, while NAS client 250 was full clustering.

Here are old VAX-era docs:

http://odl.sysworks.biz/disk$axpdocjun043/database/nas83b/nasinstall/nas_vax_over1.html 


Here are "recent" Compaq / HP-era SPDs for NAS Client 250 on OpenVMS Alpha:

https://www.zx.net.nz/mirror/h30266.www3.hpe.com/MasterIndex/spd/spd_00581ab0.txt 

https://www.zx.net.nz/mirror/h30266.www3.hpe.com/masterindex/spd/spd_00e417cc.txt 


For comparision, here's a NAS Client 150 SPD:

https://www.zx.net.nz/mirror/h30266.www3.hpe.com/MasterIndex/spd/spd_0135a5ec.txt 


Coincidentally (or entirely unsurprisingly?), you were in a thread 
about this NAS mess some twenty years ago, too:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/39GoF1ao-gs/m/1R03B9UR_yUJ

The LMF group table stuff was the easiest way to see what included 
what, though the contents of the SPDs officially overrode the group 
table.

Off the top, I don't remember the full filename LMF$*something-or-other 
for the LMF group data, but it should be easy enough to find.




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