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

[Richard Jordan]

On 8/12/24 4:45 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
I had found the reference to the LMF file and looked it up on the 
customer's current production system (which doesn't have any NAS license 
installed; it has discrete DECnet and UCX licenses).  The -250 license 
entries in that file didn't even include any cluster entries.  The 
actual machine it originally came with is offline on a shelf so I can't 
check that for now.

Thanks for replying, and for the answer!

Rich