Happy birthday, cluster!

[Jan van den Ende]

On 13 april 1997, at 11:35:50 MET DST (09:35:50 GMT) our cluster came into existence,
It has been providing continuous service to our users ever since.

So, today we celebrate
9 YEAR UPTIME.

Proost.

Have one on me (maybe in May in Nashua?)

jpe

[Karl Rohwedder]

Congratulations Jan,

the longest uptime I can report is about 1200 days (for a single VAX4000-200):
AX/VMS V5.5-2 on node WZB01 13-APR-2006 08:00:57.76 Uptime 1218 17:19:02

regards Kalle

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Jan,
Congratulations.
We definitely will drink to that in Nashua.
Cu there.
Kris (aka Qkcl)

[Thomas Ritter]

9 year uptime... unbelievable. We replace clusters about every 4 years. Well done.

[Antoniov.]

Success story!
Congratulations for your real cluster.

Antonio
http://it.openvms.org

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Congrats Jan.

I have a 2000 that is power off since 3 years but still not gone due to a difficult organization. Happy birthday too.

Wim

[Bojan Nemec]

Congratulations Jan,

Na zdravje! (cheers)

I used your story many times to explain the VMS robustness.

Bojan

[Ian Miller.]

Congratulations on your new birthday. Not the longest uptime but very impressive considering the hardware changes and relocations.

[Jan van den Ende]

Bojan,

bonus points (in name of the VMS Stealth Marketing Initiative) for actually USING our story!

Proost.

Have one on me (maybe in May in Nashua?)

jpe

[John Gillings]

Re Tom:

>9 year uptime... unbelievable. We replace
>clusters about every 4 years. Well done.

With the right cluster configuration, it's entirely possible that Jan has replaced all the hardware, and possibly even moved buildings in those 9 years, while still maintaining the cluster foundation date. All it needs is for at least one node to remain running at all times.

Application up time does not depend on a single node remaining up all the time, it just needs at least one member of the cluster to be up.