20-May-2003

First Itanium Cluster Node

An Itanium machine running the port of the OpenVMS operating system has been successfully booted into a cluster. Go, the Engineering Team!

$ show cluster

View of Cluster from system ID 20458  node: CONMAN         15-MAY-2003 20:27:13
****************************************************************
*                       SYSTEMS                      * MEMBERS *
****************************************************************
*  NODE  *             HW_TYPE            * SOFTWARE *  STATUS *
****************************************************************
* CONMAN * Generic Itanium Platform       * VMS X9SG * MEMBER  *
* KNOTS  * AlphaServer 1000A 5/300        * VMS V7.3 * MEMBER  *
****************************************************************
$
$ show sys
OpenVMS X9SG-M2O  on node CONMAN  15-MAY-2003 20:28:07.25  Uptime  0
00:08:12
  Pid    Process Name    State  Pri      I/O       CPU       Page flts
 Pages
20C00401 SWAPPER         HIB     16        0   0 00:00:04.18         0
     0
20C00406 CLUSTER_SWVERS  CUR  1  12        6   0 00:07:17.88        84
   116
20C00407 CLUSTER_SERVER  HIB     14       24   0 00:00:00.04       140
   217
20C00408 CONFIGURE       HIB      9       42   0 00:00:00.01       106
    94
20C00409 LANACP          HIB     12       87   0 00:00:00.07       269
   382
20C0040A FASTPATH_SERVER HIB     10       30   0 00:00:00.02       259
   224
20C0040B CACHE_SERVER    HIB     16        6   0 00:00:00.00        81
   114
20C0040C OPCOM           HIB      6       82   0 00:00:00.04       210
   156
20C0040D AUDIT_SERVER    HIB      8       85   0 00:00:00.07       264
   374
20C0040E JOB_CONTROL     HIB      8       36   0 00:00:00.00       143
   241
20C00410 SMISERVER       HIB      7       79   0 00:00:00.04       346
   524
20C00411 NETACP          HIB     10       35   0 00:00:00.01       174
   263
20C00412 EVL             HIB      4      100   0 00:00:00.07       287
   352  N
20C00413 REMACP          HIB      8        9   0 00:00:00.00        89
    91
20C00415 SYSTEM          CUR  0   4      869   0 00:00:00.60      2655
   374
$
$ sho dev d

Device                  Device           Error    Volume         Free 
Trans Mnt
 Name                   Status           Count     Label        Blocks
Count Cnt
CONMAN$DKA100:          Online               0
CONMAN$DKB0:            Mounted              0  IA64X9SG      56469798
   93   1
CONMAN$DKB200:          Online               0
CONMAN$DKB400:          Online               0
CONMAN$DQA0:            Online               0
CONMAN$DQA1:            Online               0
$11$DKA0:      (KNOTS)  Online               0  (remote shadow member)
$11$DKA100:    (KNOTS)  Online               0
$11$DKA200:    (KNOTS)  Online               0  (remote shadow member)
$11$DKA300:    (KNOTS)  Online               0  (remote shadow member)
$11$DKA400:    (KNOTS)  Online               0
$11$DKA500:    (KNOTS)  Mounted              0  (remote mount)        
        1
$11$DKA600:    (KNOTS)  Mounted              0  (remote mount)        
        1
$

This test shows that the mainline code paths for the following cluster functionality is working:

  • cluster communications (PEdriver & SCS)
  • connection manager
  • distributed lock manager
  • MSCP disk class driver
  • distributed file system
  • cluster wide process services
  • show cluster
Posted at May 20, 2003 7:04 AM
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ok....who came up with the node name ?

Posted by: Christopher Foster at May 20, 2003 8:19 AM

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