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I did it on a couple of unnamed industrial boxes having "generic"
motherboards and off the shelf components. Used the FR-ba356-NT kit, meaning
carefully doing the SCSI thing.
Worked without a hitch. Why shouldn't it.
I haven't run intensive and real life tests, just saw that the thing
boots and fails over.
Real question is: in Many situations , the customer REQUIRES a support
contract for the configuration. As always, seeing the thing run doesn't mean we
will sign a service contract for it.
Shalom
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Whenever I ever have a customer ask about running to software on
another vendor's system, I tell them there is no reason for it not
to run if the other vendor is abiding by all the hardware interface
standards. However, we won't support it except on our platforms,
mainly because not every vendor is as particular about standards
as we are. Therefore, if a customer wants to run the cluster
software on another vendor's hardware, make sure they buy at least
a single hardware configuration from Digital. Then if they have
problems with the cluster software running on the other vendor's
configuration, they need to try the same thing on the Prioris
configuration. If the problem occurs on the Prioris (and they have
support), they can call for support. If they can't get the problem
to occur on the Prioris configuration, it is most likely something
in the other vendor's setup and there is no way we can support that
as we have no means of testing it. Any customer I have proposed this
to has said it makes sense. (Then, after the see the quality of our
products, they begin to wonder why they don't just use our stuff all
over!)
tgc
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