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From: DSTEVENS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (David L. Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: A couple of questions
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Date: 2 Mar 88 20:23:06 GMT
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 Greetings Programs,

	Here are a couple of questions for all you netlanders.

 1) Rumors of VMS v5.0 say that we will be able to mix clusters of CI based
	clusters, and LAVc clusters.  My question is how will the performance
	of such a cluster mix be.  Will it be worth doing???  Reason I'm asking
	is that we want to get a network server machine for here, and want it
	to be a 3600, and LAVc it into the CI cluster we have when 5.0 comes
	out.  If the mixed clusters aren't going to work, we will have to go
	for a BI machine (most likely a 8250 due to price).  Speculation, or
	any advice would be greatly apreciated.

 2) On a less theoretical tangent.  Has any one found a performance limit on
	the number of system roots that can exist on an RA82 in a CI cluster.
	Would it be worth it for us to split the system disk up into multiple
	disks ?  We already have it set up so that the primary paging and
	swapping files are located on a different disk.  Also does anyone have
	any thoughts on the advantages of using volume shadowing (for the
	system disk only).

 Thanx
	Dave Stevens
	Senior Systems Programmer
	Stevens Institute of Technology

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