Second IA64
Got the second Itanium yesterday. This machine misses to airflow-ducts. It that doesn’t disallow starting it up.After connecting a screen to the VGA outlet and a keyboard in the proper USP-port, I did, and spotted something unexpected: the screen stayed blank…
I contacted the seller this morning on the missing air ducts – he’ll send them ASAP, forgot to re-install them – and this behaviour, he told me the VGA port is very likely disabled, I could connect to the (serial) console port and get on from there: You could call it “The old-fashioned way” but it (usually) works. So that’s the next thing to do. I aslo asked what’s installed: nothing, there’s no OS on this system. So this will become a plain OpenVMS box, where the other could be a HP-VM box with OpenVMS as a guest system. Or I switch the disks, since 2 CPU’s and 24Gb memory 9and 450Gb disk space seems to be a more feasible system running multiple openVMS instances (clustered?) as guest systems).
Anyway, I need to consider a re-organization of the floor space (including a (yet to obtain) 19″ rack), power grid and network. Well, that’s for a later date.
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center