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| 168.1 | oh, perhaps Self Maintenance customers ! | TRCOA::JOHNSTON | Welcome to the MACHINE | Wed Sep 01 1993 14:08 | 10 |
| I guess this course will replace VAXcluster Maintenance Level I
(MCS course)?
Wouldn't customers who took the appropriate SYSNET training already
know most of this? But then we still teach VAXcluster System
Management to fill in VMScluster holes that SYSNET I, II and III
leave ... ;^)
Paul Johnston
Educational Services (DLS), Toronto
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| 168.2 | RE: .-1 | TANG::RHINE | Jack, OpenVMS Training Product Manager | Wed Sep 01 1993 16:20 | 3 |
| This course will certainly replace VAXcluster System Management. This
course goes far beyond SYSNET III. As far as VAXcluster Maint. Level
I, we haven't really looked at the content and probably should.
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| 168.3 | Pilot Review | SOAEDS::GRUNDHOEFER | | Wed Jun 15 1994 09:02 | 69 |
| I recently taught the "prototype" (new word for pilot) teach of Emmalee
Tarry's "Managing and Configuring Complex VMSclusters" course.
I had 6 students (5 customers and 1 GIA employee) as well as Emmalee
who was fortunate enough to be able to attend it here in Atlanta.
The course, in my opinion, went very well. The students liked the fact that
we had Alpha's in the classroom. They were also very pleased with how easy it
was to add the Alpha's to the cluster.
The course consists of 7 lecture modules plus 1 lab module. Here are some of
the comments that the students gave during the end of course conference:
"The first two days had a bit too much lecture. We reached the
saturation point around 2:00."
"We liked the mixed architecture cluster and being able to see
and use Alpha's."
"A more detailed index would be nice."
"Make sure that the instructor teaching this course is competent
and knowledgeable in the subject. Too many courses these days are
taught by non-Digital consultants who seem to be in over their
heads."
"Emmalee obviously spent allot of time getting this course ready
and did a great job. Most of the errors were just nits."
Here is the schedule I followed:
Day Lecture Lab Exercises Written Exercises
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Monday Module 1 and most of 2 #1-1,1-2,1-3 p.8-6 #4 (chap 1)
#4-(1-5) p.8-12
Tuesday Finish 2 and most of 3 #3 p.8-9, #4 p.8-12 #1,2,3 (chap 3)
Wednesday Finish 3, 4, and 6 #5, #9, #7 (optional) #1,2,3 (chap 4)
Thursday Module 7 (except Security)
#10,11,12 #1 (chap 7)
Friday Finish 7 and all of 5 none none
My recommended MINIMUM Course Instructor Needs List for any training center
offering this course would be:
For every 3 students: 1 VMS boot server and 2 satellites
For every session: 1 VAX boot server and 1 AXP boot server
2 DSSI nodes including RF disk drives
OpenVMS VAX V6.1 and AXP V6.1
PAKS for Volume Shadowing
DECamds and VAXsim installed or available
My recommended additional equipment wish list would include:
2 FDDI nodes
2 CI nodes
1 HSC
1 HSJ
1 HSD
Any instructors who are planning on teaching this course should allow themselves
at least a week for prep (even if they teach the current VAXcluster System
Management course). This course contains many new topics that are not found in
the old one. For example; adding AXP's into a cluster, V6.1 new features on
both platforms, FDDI configuration, and how to install and use DECamds.
For additional comments or questions you can send VMS mail to
TRNING::GRUNDHOEFER.
John
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| 168.4 | comments | WAGGIS::FREPPEL | ghost clusters | Sun Jun 19 1994 11:14 | 21 |
| Hi John,
thank you for your input. Let me comment on your comments:
Re. the first two days:
I used to have even more lecture the first two days (with the "old" VAXcluster
course). This was simply because a foundation had to be established before we
could talk about configuretion issues. Most people liked it that way.
Re. non-Digital consultants:
Isn't customer satisfaction our primary goal ? :-(
Re. equipment needed:
Is this realistic for training centers in the U.S.? Tough the minimum
requirements could be met, the recommended additional equipment is way beyond
what we (in Switzerland) dare to dream of...
Re. prep time:
Agree. I strongly recommend to walk through the exercises, some are tricky.
Raymond.
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| 168.5 | Additional docs handed out? | WAGGIS::FREPPEL | ghost clusters | Sun Jun 19 1994 11:24 | 17 |
| In Switzerland we hand out Roy Davis' "VAXcluster Principles". I Think
with the new course this makes even more sense, since the book is
fairly often recommended for further reading. Handing a copy out to the
student gives him or her the possibility to read the appropriate
paragraph(s) during non-course hours and come back to the course with
questions (if any).
We also hand out the "Configuration Guidelines for VAXcluster Systems",
or provide bookreader access to the document.
Handing out SPDs for VMScluster, Volume Shadowing, and Disk Striping is
useful too (John, you did so in the pilot, right?)
Additional information on the newer products (HSJ,HSD etc) could be
provided as well.
What do you think?
Raymond.
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| 168.6 | Better late than never... | SOAEDS::GRUNDHOEFER | | Tue Jul 26 1994 14:12 | 15 |
| Sorry for the late response, Raymond. I don't read this conference
daily.
I agree that the Roy Davis book would be a great document to give the
students, however, I'm not sure the additional cost is a luxury we can
afford. I also think that most students in the US attending this course
will find the book too detailed for their daily needs.
Yes, I did hand out the SPD's and the information contained in them
answered a couple configuration questions that came up during the week.
As far as the equipment list goes, you shoot for the moon and settle
on whatever you get. ;-) For this course to be successful though, you
MUST have AXP's in the classroom.
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