Does anyone have any insight into how open the implementation will be
- i.e. will it be fairly happy to talk to most storage vendor stuff
out there?

I know I'm a mere hobbyist but I'm seriously considering forking out
for a DroboPro (the new releases will support iSCSI) to centralise all
my storage needs, and would love to get it working with OpenVMS.

Is this likely to work out?

Sampsa

On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 15:33 -0700, sampsa wrote:
> I know I'm a mere hobbyist but I'm seriously considering forking out
> for a DroboPro (the new releases will support iSCSI) to centralise all
> my storage needs, and would love to get it working with OpenVMS.

I don't know about direct iSCSI support in VMS V8.x, but you could
always run PersonalAlpha and SIMH to use the iSCSI on a suitable host
system.

For a commercial system, CHARON-VAX and CHARON-AXP support iSCSI
storage.  [Shameless Plug Alert (tm) -- I am a CHARON reseller.]

You could use NFS from another system to provide the bulk of the iSCSI
space to VMS.  You can't boot via NFS, unfortunately.  [Do later Alphas
have a way to boot from TFTP?]

-- 
Stan Quayle
Quayle Consulting Inc.

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On 5/24/2010 4:33 PM, sampsa wrote:
> I know I'm a mere hobbyist but I'm seriously considering forking out
> for a DroboPro (the new releases will support iSCSI) to centralise all
> my storage needs, and would love to get it working with OpenVMS.

OpenVMS 8.3-1H1 on Integrity included a "Software-Based iSCSI Initiator 
Technology Demonstration Kit" or TDK -- see 
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/iscsipro.pdf. Stephen Hoffman has a 
relevant writeup at http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1211