| Title: | VAX and Alpha VMS |
| Notice: | This is a new VMSnotes, please read note 2.1 |
| Moderator: | VAXAXP::BERNARDO |
| Created: | Wed Jan 22 1997 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 703 |
| Total number of notes: | 3722 |
Hi,
My understanding of heterogeneous mixed VMScluster (VAX and Alpha)
requires system disk for each host on the cluster.
A customer wants to find out whether they can share a common system
disk for several VAX hosts and another common system disk for Alpha
hosts. Does it work? Is this a supported cluster?
Is it possible to share a common pagefile on a heterogeneous cluster?
Thanks,
Patrick
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| 675.1 | UTRTSC::utojvdbu1.uto.dec.com::JurVanDerBurg | Change mode to Panic! | Tue Jun 03 1997 09:02 | 21 | |
>My understanding of heterogeneous mixed VMScluster (VAX and Alpha)
>requires system disk for each host on the cluster.
Each architecture requires a system disk. Multuple systems of equal architecture
may share a system disk.
>A customer wants to find out whether they can share a common system
>disk for several VAX hosts and another common system disk for Alpha
>hosts. Does it work? Is this a supported cluster?
That's perfectly normal and supported.
>Is it possible to share a common pagefile on a heterogeneous cluster?
Excuse me? A pagefile can NEVER be shared between systems. Or did you mean share a
disk for paging/swapping between systems with multiple page/swapfiles on it? That
should be possible although you should watch out because it's easy to overload such
a disk.
Jur.
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| 675.2 | Cluster common pagefiles | VIVIAN::RANCE | http://vivian.hhl.dec.com/rance/ | Tue Jun 03 1997 10:25 | 10 |
.0>Is it possible to share a common pagefile on a heterogeneous cluster?
This was possible with early versions of OpenVMS, I think it was fixed
at about V5.5-2. Before then you could install one systems primary
pagefile as another systems secondary! We got quite good at
recognising the footprint of a "cluster shared pagefile" in the
dumpfile that was created when one system paged all over another
systems data!
StuartR
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