5 Nov
2019
5 Nov
'19
5:38 a.m.
On 11/4/2019 9:59 PM, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
Hello All,
I recently acquired/rescued a rack of Alphaserver gear that was going to get scrapped.
In the rack is two ES45 servers (with no local drive cages), and a 3-shelf HSG80 Fibre
Channel disk system. There were no drives, but I have plenty of this form factor and so
I?ve fully populated all three shelves.
The original system apparently ran Tru64 Unix, but I don?t have much interest in that.
I?d love to get the two machines running in an OpenVMS cluster.
I?ve managed to figure out the HSG80 array, and I am serving up acouple of FC LUNs. I
can verify this because I?ve got wwidmgr on the Alpha?s to see and create a drive (dgb2).
However, when I attempt to boot OpenVMS Alpha 8.4 from CD-ROM, the install process
doesn?t recognize the FC drive and offer it as an installation target.
Is anyone familiar with this generation of gear and possibly give me a pointer or two
about what I might be doing wrong?
Perhaps I need a newer OpenVMS install? Is there ISO images of various versions lurking
around hecNET that anyone is willing to share?
Thanks for any suggestions!
Ian
I used to have an HSG80 that I used with some DS20 and AS1200 Alphaservers.? V8.4
should be fine. I used V8.3.? Make sure that your FC HBA are supported by OpenVMS.? Some
that worked for Tru64 didn't work with OpemVMS.? I think WWIDMGR would still see them
in either case.? Also make sure that the LUNS you create on the HSG are marked as VMS
disks.? There's a flag, I don't remember the command, but if it isn't set,
then OpenVMS won't see them.? You might post the output of a SHOW DISK xxx from the
HSG.
Also, IIRC the HSG has "connections", if those aren't set to OpenVMS then
you might have problems.? It's been about 5 years since I've done this so I'm
trying to remember any problems that I had.
--
John H. Reinhardt