[HECnet] Galaxy questions

[Cory Smelosky]

Does Galaxy with hard partitions let you run different OSes or are you limited to VMS?

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Kari Uusim  ki" <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org>
| To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
| Sent: Friday, 15 February, 2013 3:06:36 AM
| Subject: Re: [HECnet] Galaxy questions
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| On 15.2.2013 9:29, Gregg Levine wrote:
| > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
| > <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:
| >> This sounds like the zSeries LPARs
| >>
| >> Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
| >> Barcelona - Catalunya - Europa
| >>
| >> El 15/02/2013, a les 7:56, Kari Uusim  ki
| >> <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org> va escriure:
| >>> In a Galaxy there are two (or more in bigger machines) "logical"
| >>> nodes (Instances) which run separately, but can also share
| >>> resources like CPUs so that the CPUs can be moved from each
| >>> instance to the other.
| >
| > Hello!
| > Yes and no. Yes there are two or more CPUs inside there. No its not
| > like the Lpars that the zSeries supports, in that case there is
| > support stuff to properly enable the logical partitioning of the
| > system. Both hardware and software.
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| > However they are being strongly discouraged. The SEs are trying to
| > convince people to go the guest approach instead.
| >
| > However Kari Uusim  ki is quite correct that the Galaxy
| > configuration
| > is not part of the hobbyist load. It is something that would need
| > to
| > be purchased along with a professional license for VMS.
| >
| > And please don't ask how I know all of that.
| > -----
| > Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| >
| > .
| >
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| I'm just curious to know which approach is discouraged, the Galaxy or
| the hard partitioning. I guess it is the former, because it is closer
| to
| the guest approach.
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| Anyhow, if someone wants to run several instances of VMS on Alpha,
| only
| Galaxy and hard partitioning is available as there aren't a guest
| system
| on Alpha.
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| The guest approach on I64 is the new kid on the block and as it is
| more
| like VMware it seems to be more favored. As I haven't tried out the
| guest approach, I'm not aware of its good and bad parts. One
| disadvantage IMO is that there has to be HP-UX involved.
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| Kari
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