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 Post subject: How to configure GT.M on OpenVMS/Alpha 8.3 - Part 1 - Intro
PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:43 pm 
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Real Name: John Willis
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I've been working on standing up a GT.M instance on a DEC 2000 AXP.
This instance is being configured as an exercise, and the initial effort intends to set up a very basic, default GT.M instance. Only a default region has been created, and no journaling or replication has been set up. These improvements will be covered in a later post. Please do not take these instructions as best practices, nor assume that they are intended to give you a production-grade installation. These instructions are only here to give you a very basic overview of GT.M configuration on OpenVMS, and while they will likely result in a usable GT.M instance, a production server would need far more configuration than this, especially with regards to journaling and replication.

It is worthwhile to note that GT.M for OpenVMS/Alpha is now freely available at the GT.M SourceForge product page. OpenVMS/Alpha licenses for hobbyist/personal use are available at http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/licenses.php. These licenses require membership in a participating OpenVMS-related user group. Although HP Connect (the successor to Encompass, and the intellectual successor to DECUS) membership is not free, the DECUSERVE user group offers free membership, and will issue licenses once you create an account on their server. Instructions on this process are listed at http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1416.

Once licenses are secured, you can (at the time of this writing) obtain OpenVMS media kits for $30 each at http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/mount.html. They currently offer kits for OpenVMS 7.3-1 for VAX and OpenVMS 8.3 for Alpha. As GT.M only supports the Alpha flavor, we will concentrate solely on OpenVMS 8.3/Alpha.

Free Alpha emulators are available for Win32 and Win64 at http://www.migrationspecialties.com/FreeAXP.html, and for Linux at http://es40.org

The installation and configuration of OpenVMS is outside the scope of this text, and is already well-documented elsewhere. Thus, I will focus on the installation and configuration of GT.M on an already-running OpenVMS system.


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