
Les was very good at and you know he implemented every availability feature and performance optimization he could. You believe Les has the systems configured to withstand multiple failures.

But now Les has retired and you are on your own. R systems were built and managed by the same person – we’ll call him Les.

Using real world examples from SCI’s extensive CHARON customer base, this session will discuss:Ī brief overview of the virtualization architecture and functionality
#Parsec labs how to
How about running on virtualized platforms (VMWare)? Connecting your old VAX to corporate SAN storage? Easily using the corporate backup solution, automated from VMS? Using your DR site without adding legacy hardware to it? And so much more… All of these things are easier to implement than you may think!Ĭome to this session to learn how to replace those aging VAX or Alpha servers by virtualizing them with the CHARON Cross-Platform Virtualization products and take full advantage of the modern technologies in your data center. Still running your business critical applications on aging, difficult to support VAX or Alpha hardware? You’ve probably heard of CHARON emulation products that allow you to run VMS on modern, supportable x86 architecture platforms, but have you heard of the many creative opportunities CHARON allows for? A pharmaceutical’s spinoff that required duplicating the systems prior to the sale, in a different country.ĬHARON Virtualization Strategies and Techniques.A semiconductor manufacturer’s need for DR that resulted in a move from Alpha Server ES45s with EVA Storage to a VMWare & NetApp environment.A healthcare company’s move from an externally hosted and managed environment to in-house hosted and managed environment.A consumer goods company’s migration from in-house to external data center and from Alpha/EVA to Integrity/3 ParĪs time and audience interest permits, we can review these projects from last year:.

#Parsec labs upgrade
An insurance company’s upgrade of it’s aging Alpha and storage – and dealing with disappointing new storage.A consumer goods company’s migration from unsupported VAX/VMS to OpenVMS Alpha – with only half the pieces (and they didn’t figure that out until after they started!).In this session, we will discuss several of the more esoteric OpenVMS migration projects that we have been involved in and how we made them a success.

But when business needs cause changes such as moving entire data centers, requiring modern disaster recovery from your 1990s Alpha Servers, or jumping over 30 years of technological changes only to discover that the “build procedures” were not quite as robust as once imagined, the migrations become much more interesting. Thanks to the fine engineering that’s gone into VMS, many VMS migrations truly are non-events. VMS has been around for a long time and in all likelihood, you are NOT running on that same VAX-11/780 you purchased in 1980.
#Parsec labs update
This is an update to last year’s popular session. More Adventures of VMS Moves, Migrations and Rehosting… This session will be suitable for technical and managerial IT professionals and users. There will be an emphasis on the issues raised by the most recent experiences with porting from Alpha to Itanium while earlier examples will be used to further illuminate the technical issues.
