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The Question is: I have a customer w/ 2 - AS1200 clustered running OVMS V7.1-1H2. They want to upgrade OVMS to version 7.3-2 (they have the media). Where can I find info on what is necessary or if the AS1200's are certified to run V7.3-2? They will be switching out the ir HSZ50 based shared storage for HSG80 based storage and from what I see, the minimum version of OVMS is V7.2-x. Will their existing licenses work w/ V7.3-2? Any other gotchas? Thanks The Answer is :
Open-ended upgrade questions -- Any Gotchas? -- are effectively not
answerable, beyond the generic request to review the documentation
for the intervening releases and for the target release, and to also
apply both the mandatory ECO kits for the target OpenVMS release and
to also apply any applicable non-mandatory ECO kits for the release.
From the OpenVMS FAQ section "What version of OpenVMS do I need?"
For information on supported platforms, please see
the OpenVMS Software Product Description (SPD) for the
particular OpenVMS version of interest.
The AlphaServer 1200 -- the OpenVMS Wizard will assume that is the
particular platform referenced by AS1200 -- is supported by OpenVMS
Alpha V7.3-2.
For information on the required OpenVMS version for Fibre Channel and
the HSG-series and more recent controllers, please see the Fibre Channel
web page available at the OpenVMS website. The URL for Fibre Channel
information is in the OpenVMS FAQ.
For information on software licenses, please contact your HP Reseller
or HP representative -- some customers have purchased the Right To
Upgrade license, some have Software Support, and some do not have a
license to upgrade to more recent OpenVMS releases. (Customers that
do not have a Software Support contract will typically need to acquire
a Right To Upgrade license.) Your HP Reseller or HP representative
will have the licensing information that is specific to this customer
installation.
For reasons of support, V7.2-2 and V7.3-2 would be (as of this writing)
the best choices for OpenVMS upgrades for this and many similar
configurations.
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