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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

685.0. "System Requirement on OVMS 5.5-2 and 6.2" by HGOV08::PATRICKNG () Wed Jun 04 1997 05:47

    Hi,
    
    A customer is looking for the information what are the extra workload
    required when OpenVMS upgrade from v5.5-2 to v6.2.
    
    I couldn't find the SPD on OpenVMS 5.5-2 and v6.2. Does anyone who know
    the system requirement on the OpenVMS 5.5-2 and 6.2?
    
    
    Thanks,
    Patrick
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685.1No Answer To This Question...XDELTA::HOFFMANSteve, OpenVMS EngineeringWed Jun 04 1997 10:3328
:    A customer is looking for the information what are the extra workload
:    required when OpenVMS upgrade from v5.5-2 to v6.2.
:    I couldn't find the SPD on OpenVMS 5.5-2 and v6.2. Does anyone who know
:    the system requirement on the OpenVMS 5.5-2 and 6.2?

   Workload?  We generally do not characterize performance differences
   between releases in documentation -- we generally have targets around
   overall OpenVMS performance on the main code paths that an upgrade
   must not exceed, but I'd be surprised to see any explicit statements
   or performance characterizations in any customer documentation...

   The SPDs list minimum system disk and memory requirements for support.
   (The V6.2 SPD is available on BULOVA::, see pointers to the release
   kit and documentation directories in notes 8.* and 9.*.)
   
   As for system requirements, those are called out in the installation
   and upgrade manual (and in the SPD) -- the upgrade manual is something
   the customer should read prior to performing the upgrade...

   And in any case, the customer needs to look at the local application
   workload, as -- given this question is being asked -- the customer
   might already need to upgrade their hardware configuration or processor,
   regardless of the OpenVMS VAX upgrade.

   Customer copies of the documentation are available from (and should be
   ordered from) the SSB.
685.2Could be faster (but don't make any promises!)GIDDAY::GILLINGSa crucible of informative mistakesWed Jun 04 1997 19:068
    Patrick,
    
      If you're asking about the change in system performance between
    V5.5-2 and V6.2, consider that V6 introduced the Virtual I/O Cache.
    Therefore, for *some* workloads, V6.x will perform better than V5.
    
    						John Gillings, Sydney CSC