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Title:	"ASK THE WIZARDS"

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONEL

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1995
Last Modified:	Mon May 12 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1857
Total number of notes:	3728

1849.0. "Open: options for clustering?" by STAR::JKEENAN () Mon May 12 1997 12:54

Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 07:12:40 -0400
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From: "VMS001::WWW"@vms001.das-x.dec.com (08-May-1997 0712)
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Subject: Ask the Wizard: '[email protected]'

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Name: Jim Jablonski
Email Address: [email protected]
CPU Architecture: VAX and Alpha
Version: V 6.1
Questions:

Greetings to the wizard,

We have several small standalone systems(2 mv3100,vax4300,
2 axp3600, axp3400) connected via decnet.  We would like
to explore the possibilty of clustering these systems.

What would be the advantages/disadvantages, costs for
hardware/software, Licensing etc..

Thank you for any help you can give us on this question.

                      Jim

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1849.1 http://www.digital.com/info/software-licensing/ XDELTA::HOFFMAN Steve, OpenVMS Engineering Mon May 12 1997 15:44 15

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1849.1	http://www.digital.com/info/software-licensing/	XDELTA::HOFFMAN	Steve, OpenVMS Engineering	`Mon May 12 1997 15:44`	15
	Individual license costs are typically not affected by the VMScluster, or the costs are reduced, depending on the particular product licensing policies used. Without knowing which products are involved, the Wizard cannot state the answer with any certainty. For information on the benefits of a VMScluster, take a look at the _Guidelines for VMScluster Configurations_ manual -- one can have a single password and profile management domain, a single set of disks accessable across all nodes, and the ability to use components such as the distributed lock manager for control and failover of user applications, the ability to have a LAT or IP user log into any available VMScluster machine, and (in your case) as few as two system disks (one for OpenVMS VAX, one for OpenVMS Alpha), etc.

   Individual license costs are typically not affected by the VMScluster,
   or the costs are reduced, depending on the particular product licensing
   policies used.  Without knowing which products are involved, the Wizard
   cannot state the answer with any certainty.

   For information on the benefits of a VMScluster, take a look at the
   _Guidelines for VMScluster Configurations_ manual -- one can have a
   single password and profile management domain, a single set of disks
   accessable across all nodes, and the ability to use components such
   as the distributed lock manager for control and failover of user
   applications, the ability to have a LAT or IP user log into any
   available VMScluster machine, and (in your case) as few as two
   system disks (one for OpenVMS VAX, one for OpenVMS Alpha), etc.