[HECnet] Galaxy questions

AFAIK galaxies are VMS specific. I'm not sure whether you can run different VMS versions in one galaxy. I tried to set up a galaxy on an alpha server 1200 assuming it is nearly a 4100 but that failed. -----Original Message----- From: Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:18:49 To: <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] Galaxy questions Does Galaxy with hard partitions let you run different OSes or are you limited to VMS? ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Kari Uusim ki" <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org> | To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE | Sent: Friday, 15 February, 2013 3:06:36 AM | Subject: Re: [HECnet] Galaxy questions | | | | | | On 15.2.2013 9:29, Gregg Levine wrote: | > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons | > <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote: | >> This sounds like the zSeries LPARs | >> | >> Jordi Guillaumes i Pons | >> Barcelona - Catalunya - Europa | >> | >> El 15/02/2013, a les 7:56, Kari Uusim ki | >> <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org> va escriure: | >>> In a Galaxy there are two (or more in bigger machines) "logical" | >>> nodes (Instances) which run separately, but can also share | >>> resources like CPUs so that the CPUs can be moved from each | >>> instance to the other. | > | > Hello! | > Yes and no. Yes there are two or more CPUs inside there. No its not | > like the Lpars that the zSeries supports, in that case there is | > support stuff to properly enable the logical partitioning of the | > system. Both hardware and software. | > | > However they are being strongly discouraged. The SEs are trying to | > convince people to go the guest approach instead. | > | > However Kari Uusim ki is quite correct that the Galaxy | > configuration | > is not part of the hobbyist load. It is something that would need | > to | > be purchased along with a professional license for VMS. | > | > And please don't ask how I know all of that. | > ----- | > Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com | > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." | > | > . | > | | | I'm just curious to know which approach is discouraged, the Galaxy or | the hard partitioning. I guess it is the former, because it is closer | to | the guest approach. | | Anyhow, if someone wants to run several instances of VMS on Alpha, | only | Galaxy and hard partitioning is available as there aren't a guest | system | on Alpha. | | The guest approach on I64 is the new kid on the block and as it is | more | like VMware it seems to be more favored. As I haven't tried out the | guest approach, I'm not aware of its good and bad parts. One | disadvantage IMO is that there has to be HP-UX involved. | | | Kari | | | | | -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments