DSTEVENS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (David L. Stevens) (03/03/88)
Greetings Programs, Here are a couple of questions for all you netlanders. 1) Rumors of VMS v5.0 say that we will be able to mix clusters of CI based clusters, and LAVc clusters. My question is how will the performance of such a cluster mix be. Will it be worth doing??? Reason I'm asking is that we want to get a network server machine for here, and want it to be a 3600, and LAVc it into the CI cluster we have when 5.0 comes out. If the mixed clusters aren't going to work, we will have to go for a BI machine (most likely a 8250 due to price). Speculation, or any advice would be greatly apreciated. 2) On a less theoretical tangent. Has any one found a performance limit on the number of system roots that can exist on an RA82 in a CI cluster. Would it be worth it for us to split the system disk up into multiple disks ? We already have it set up so that the primary paging and swapping files are located on a different disk. Also does anyone have any thoughts on the advantages of using volume shadowing (for the system disk only). Thanx Dave Stevens Senior Systems Programmer Stevens Institute of Technology CCnet: SITVXC::DSTEVENS BITnet: DSTEVENS@SITVXC INTERnet: DSTEVENS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU "Its not my fault. Especially on Fridays and Mondays" ------------
DSTEVENS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (David L. Stevens) (03/18/88)
Greetings Programs, Here are a couple of questions for all you netlanders. This is a reposting, because I never saw the message make it back to me, nor did I get any answeres. 1) Rumors of VMS v5.0 say that we will be able to mix clusters of CI based clusters, and LAVc clusters. My question is how will the performance of such a cluster mix be. Will it be worth doing??? Reason I'm asking is that we want to get a network server machine for here, and want it to be a 3600, and LAVc it into the CI cluster we have when 5.0 comes out. If the mixed clusters aren't going to work, we will have to go for a BI machine (most likely a 8250 due to price). Speculation, or any advice would be greatly apreciated. 2) On a less theoretical tangent. Has any one found a performance limit on the number of system roots that can exist on an RA82 in a CI cluster. Would it be worth it for us to split the system disk up into multiple disks ? We already have it set up so that the primary paging and swapping files are located on a different disk. Also does anyone have any thoughts on the advantages of using volume shadowing (for the system disk only). Thanx Dave Stevens Senior Systems Programmer Stevens Institute of Technology CCnet: SITVXC::DSTEVENS BITnet: DSTEVENS@SITVXC INTERnet: DSTEVENS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU "Its not my fault. Especially on Fridays and Mondays" ------------