[Vms.sig-hu] ok for external distribution: OpenVMS Pearl OpenVMS a hero again ... and EVA planning (fwd)

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---------- Továbbított levél ----------
Dátum: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:52:09 -0400
Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Tárgy: ok for external distribution: OpenVMS Pearl  OpenVMS a hero 
again ... and EVA planning

Dear External Distribution lists,

As you can seen Jim has given the ok for this message to go external 
but
please do not post it on any external web sites.  And of course there
will be someone to help with EVA questions at the boot camp. We even
have hands on EVA sessions ;') we love storage. 

I have changed nothing in the message not even the subject line.

Warm regards,
Sue


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Geier [mailto:jimgeier at jimgeier.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 7:36 PM
To: Skonetski, Susan
Subject: RE: OpenVMS a hero again ... and EVA planning


Hi Sue,

You have permission to sent this external to HP.

--jim--




-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Geier [mailto:jimgeier at jimgeier.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:27 PM
To: Skonetski, Susan
Cc: Chisholm, Jeff
Subject: OpenVMS a hero again ... and EVA planning


HI Sue,

I'm looking forward to another OpenVMS Advanced Technical boot camp 
next
week.

In the meantime, I wanted to share a story my supervisor told me
yesterday. I manage the OpenVMS systems for HealthCare Partners 
Medical
Group (HCP) running GE/IDX applications. We have three AlphaServer 
ES45
systems in the cluster because we can run our business on two. 
Recently,
the CIO asked the director of customer support to prepare a 
spreadsheet
showing the last unscheduled outage for all critical systems at HCP for
the past year. Someone asked why the GE/IDX system was not on the 
list,
and the answer was, "The GE/IDX systems have not had any 
unscheduled
downtime in the past year." The retort was that there was a system 
crash
in March due to a memory failure, and another system crash in 
December,
and the answer was "because of the OpenVMS cluster configuration, 
there
was no outage to the users, therefore, there was no unscheduled
downtime." I was told that the discussion then moved to, "why aren't
more of our systems configured like that."

>From my perspective, this is how OpenVMS, OpenVMS Engineering, and
various OpenVMS support groups (like Jeff Chisholm's group) make me 
look
good, and make my boss, and his boss (our CIO) look good, as well. We
like that.

Furthermore, many ideas I have discussed or learned at the OpenVMS
Bootcamp have proven valuable in my ability to manage these clusters
(production and test) so that the expectations for uptime are met and
performance is good. Thanks very much to you and all of the engineers
who participate in the bootcamp sessions or peripheral discussions.

Please feel free to forward our little story and my thanks to the HP
OpenVMS Engineering folks who are so instrumental in our success -- 
it's
a team effort, and I surely love having OpenVMS on my team.


We have an EVA 8000 bugeted for later this year. I would like, if
possible, to sit down with someone and really understand what the 
best
configuration might be given our environment. Is there someone who 
will
be at the bootcamp who can help me with this?

thanks, Sue!

--jim geier--


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