I have a customer that has a 4-node cluster. 2 VAXes are running VMS 6.2. 2 Alphas are running VMS 7.3-1.
The customer wants to upgrade the Alphas from 7.3-1 to 7.3-2 using separate system disks, using the rolling upgrade, while the VAXes stay up (6.2).
If the upgrade "rolls" there would be a point where there would be 3 versions of VMS. I seem to have read somewhere where you cannot have more than 2 versions ever, even through rolling upgrades. Is this true?
since Vax versions are not always synchronous ty AXP versions, such 3-version situations are inevitable (there only exists Vax 7.3, no sub-versions). That said, I have serious doubts about any 6.2 <-> 7.3(-x) combination, but you ARE already running that.
But, there is a _WIDE_ gray area between "supported" and "may work". Since you already ARE running Vax6.2 plus Alpha7.3-x, there definitely is _NO_ code that forbids it. So, your chances are good, but, _IF_ things go wrong, you ARE on your own!
Should you decide to do it, will you report back here?
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Ron, I'm not sure of the combination VAX 6.2 and Alpha 7.3-2, but from my own experience the combination VAX 7.3, Alpha 7.3-2 (or 8.2) and IA64 8.2-1 hasn't given any trouble up till now. I wouldn't recommend it though in a production environment. Greetz, Kris (aka Qkcl)
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Ron We also have a mixed cluster- currently a 9 member cluster made up of a mix of VAX, Alpha and occasionally a I64 machines. We currently run VAX 7.3 with a mix of Alpha 7.3-1, 7.3-2 and now 8.2, and we occasionally bring in a VAX 6.2 or a I64. We have been running this type of configuration for many years with no problems. We are using it in a development/ test arrangement - not production.
