[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[Keith Parris]

JF Mezei wrote:
> And while I understand the usefulness of blades in a windows environment
> where you need multiple separate instances of Windows to run multiple
> applications, I still don't really see the usefulness of blades in an
> enterprise OS where you would want separate systems for redundancy
> purposes and where you don't need multiple systems to run multiple
> applications.

Customers do as they have in the past when they divided up GS-320s or 
GS-1280s into multiple partitions, yet needed redundancy: You consider 
any cabinet to be a potential single point of failure and have multiple 
cabinets (at least two) and cluster between them for availability (and 
between cabinets at different sites for disaster tolerance).

And as Neil pointed out, being in a single cabinet isn't nearly the 
availability challenge that it was back in the GS-320 days, since Blade 
components tend to be hot-swappable and you don't have to take the whole 
cabinet down for maintenance on one piece.