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OpenVMS Month!
February is the OpenVMS Month. The people of VMSblog have launched a “Call for Participation in the OpenVMS Month“, the event is sponsored by Connect and there will be presentations, webinars. These...
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Tukwila, we are almost there
It seems that finally and after a myriad of delays Tukwila, the brand new quad-core Itanium processor from Intel, is going to be released. Yesterday through its Chip Shots bulletin board, Intel...
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Cloning HPVM guests
Our next step in the wonderful HPVM World is… cloning virtual machines. If you have used VMware Virtual Infrastructure cloning, probably are used to the easy “right-click and clone vm” procedure. Sadly...
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HPVM clones first boot tasks
Welcome again to “HPVM World!” my dear readers :-D Have to say that even with the initial disappointment about hpvmclone, cloning IVMs was a very funny task but I believe that the after cloning tasks...
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Guest migration in HPVM 3.5
As I already said many times my current HPVM version is 3.5 so it doesn’t support guest online migration. But lacking the online migration feature doesn’t mean that we can not perform Integrity VM...
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Fixing my own stupidity and a bunch of DRD errors
I was playing this afternoon with DRD in an 11.23 machine and just after launching the clone process I decided to stop it with Ctrl-C since I wasn’t logging the session and I wanted to do it. The...
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New Generation Integrity Servers
Last week was, without any doubt, one of the most exciting of the year. The new Integrity Servers have been finally unveiled. This new whole line of Integrity machines are based on Tukwila, the latest...
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Boot disk structure on Integrity servers
The boot disk/disks of every Integrity server are divided into three partitions: EFI Partition: Contains the necessary tools and files to find and load the appropriate kernel. Here resides for example...
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Howto set-up a VxVM boot disk from a LVM boot disk
Creating a Veritas Volume Manager boot disk using the LVM boot disks as its source probably looks to many as a very complicated process, nothing so far from the reality. In fact the whole conversion...
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OpenVMS 8.4 is here and it comes full of new features
This week HP has released OpenVMS 8.4 for Alpha and Integrity servers. This new version of this robust and reliable operating system introduces a bunch of great new features. Some of the more important...
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