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The Question is: We are having one Alpha 2100 system running OpenVMS 6.2-1H3. It has got 2 HSZ40 controllers in the redundant mode. We are having another Alpha 2100 system which is having OSF/1. But we want to have the OpenVMS on this system (which is having OSF/1 right n ow and doesn't have any HSZ or any other RAID controller) and make a OpenVMS cluster of these two systems. Now the question is what hardware(HSZ40 controllers, SCSI controllers/cables), software an Licensing we need to have to perform this task and what will be the brief procedure to create a cluster? The Answer is : The OpenVMS Installation and Upgrade Manual and the OpenVMS Cluster Systems Manual will be of interest here -- the former describes how to install OpenVMS and what licenses are usually expected (minimally), while the latter manual includes a description of adding a new node to an existing OpenVMS Cluster -- either as a satellite node, or as a node with a local system disk, or as a node sharing a system disk with other OpenVMS Cluster member nodes. (The OpenVMS Wizard is not aware of any way to distill this documentation sufficiently for inclusion here, as there exists a large number of permutations and configuration options involved in the creation of an OpenVMS Cluster environment -- the documentation provides you with the necessary information and with details of the various choices available to you.)
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