[Simh] Best way to 'P2V' a live VAX?

[Cejna Andreas]

HI,
do you have VMS Cluster active? If yes, just boot SIMH as a sattelite into the cluster, copy the disks into virtual disks of the SIMH node - then you should be able to boot SIMH from the copy.

HTH
Andreas
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Von: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] im Auftrag von Peter Moreton [petermoreton at hotmail.co.uk]
Gesendet: Freitag, 25. Jänner 2008 12:37
An: simh at trailing-edge.com
Betreff: Re: [Simh] Best way to 'P2V' a live VAX?

I see, so just

1: Install VMS in SIMH with ethernet enabled

2: Backup remote VAX files to local SIMH virtual disks

3: Boot the copied virtual disks in SIMH

I guess that will work. I was thinking of some method to copy the source volumes block-for-block, but whatever works is good!

Thanks
Peter.




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> Subject: RE: [Simh] Best way to 'P2V' a live VAX?
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:31:00 +0100
> From: A.Bucher at alcatel-lucent.de
> To: petermoreton at hotmail.co.uk
>
> Hi,
>
> if you are willing to spend the effort:
>
> - Install new VMS on simh (or modify the existing VAX to support remote
> boot and do a netboot of the SIMH VAX. This would save you from
> installing VMS, but requires to modify the existing config.)
> - Define additional empty disk(s) on SIMH to hold the data of a old
> VAXes volumes and mount them
> - Connect both to the same network and adjust rights, so that you can
> reach the SIMH VAX from the real VAX
> - On the existing VAX, run a backup of all files, destination are the
> empty SIMH VAX disks
>
> Now, if you boot up the SIM VAX from the disk copied with backup before,
> it should run the original VAX configuration.
>
> You could also setup the SIMH VAX to support network boot, then boot the
> real VAX from the SIMH VAX (or boot standalone backup this way) and copy
> over all files to the empty SIMH volumes and then reboot it from there.
>
>
> I did similar procedures to duplicate P2P and also P2V - but it was
> several years ago, so I don't quite remember all details, just the
> general procedure :-) My usual way of "installing", i.e. cloning VAXes
> was to remote-boot the new VAX from the existing one and then copy over
> all remote disks to local, then reboot local and adapt the configuration
> to match the requirements. If the new VAX is a real or simulated one
> does not matter, I'd say.
>
> kind regards,
> Andreas
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com
> > [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Peter Moreton
> > Sent: Freitag, 25. Januar 2008 12:06
> > To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> > Subject: [Simh] Best way to 'P2V' a live VAX?
> >
> > I want to 'P2V' a couple of very old VAX 4000-300 machines
> > that are used for software support; IIRC they use tiny (by
> > modern standards) RF31 disks. What would be the easiest
> > method to get the boot and data disks from the Physical VAX
> > world into a Virtual SIMH world?
> >
> > thanks.


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