Experience with Availability Manager V2.6

[Volker Halle]

Bart,

did you run

@SYS$COMMON:[AMDS$AM.JRE.LIB]JAVA$CHECK_ENVIRONMENT

as described in chapter 6.4 of the installation guide ? It is to supposed to check user/system parameters and give recommendations.

Volker.

[Bart Zorn_1]

Barry,

I found no accounting records which indicate a resource problem.

I am looking forward to the WAN support!

Volker,

I did run the procedure and it does not report anything.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Bart

[Barry Kierstein]

Bart,

Too bad about the accounting records...

WAN support is the major thrust in the next version of AM, and it is working well so far.

Jeff,

I did an experiment on a DS15 (closest I could get to a DS10) with 14 nodes, your data collections, etc. It showed around 40% CPU utilization. When I ran AM on the local graphics head, it was about 32%, so going over the network does cost. Working on performance, and found some things that help that will be in the next version of AM.

Hope this helps.

Barry

[Jeffrey Goodwin]

Barry,

Can you give us a rough idea when we might see the version with WAN support released?

-Jeff

[Ian Miller.]

The VMS roadmap shows Availability Manager V3 scheduled for end of 2007.

[Bart Zorn_1]

Barry,

Please let us know when there is something available for field testing!

Thanks,

Bart

[Barry Kierstein]

All,

The team is determining the final scheduling for V3.0, as well as scoping out user authentication and encryption issues, so will know more later on.

If you all were to use WAN support, what would be your situation:

1) Used inside a corporate environment (on site or virtual) - no security really needed
2) Will need to cross the corporate firewall or some other IP hurdle - some form of security/encryption needed
3) Access from a public IP site to the OpenVMS machines - security/encryption needed
4) Other

Thanks!

Barry

[labadie_1]

1) is my answer

Thanks for caring

[Ian Miller.]

2) is more likely for me as corporate networks I deal with have internal routers, firewalls etc.

[Dave Gudewicz]

In some cases #1 and in others #2 in our environment.

Dave...