After a successful installation of OpenVMS into ESXi 7.0.3, and knowing of the DL380 being something that was targeted for running on bare metal I decided to try it on a machine I owned that was fairly similar albeit imperfect.
The system board is an ASRock X99 WS, CPU is a E5-2609 v3 and there is 32GB of memory in the machine. I am using 1068E based LSI SAS controller as something had OpenVMS allergic to the AHCI controllers on the board on this machine. Two disks are attached and enumeration in the bootloader seems to be reliable. The first NIC, a I217 is picked up by the driver stack from a clean install via netboot. One thing I found strange about this board is having two serial ports, and both work in OpenVMS, one as OPA0:. and one as TTA0:.
With a trusty VT520 for a OPA0, and manually keying in the OPENVMS-X86-BOE PAK to enable TCPIP and SSH, things seem to work well. There's a lot yet to play with on the system and I'm still learning VMS... I'm hoping to make it run a few game servers once the OpenJDK port is complete.
Thanks for reading the story, and I'm happy to entertain any questions.
OpenVMS 9.2-1 on real hardware success.
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Re: OpenVMS 9.2-1 on real hardware success.
could be related to DECnet wanting to change the MAC address. If you are running DECnet/Plus then you can tell it not to by setting ENABLE PHASEIV ADDRESS to False on that circuit.
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Re: OpenVMS 9.2-1 on real hardware success.
There are a few things I will want to try with the X540 later. At that time I had much less experience with how networking worked in OpenVMS.
As time went on, I eventually moved to an HPE DL150, which is very similar to a DL380G9 in tower form factor. Everything is working as expected, and I've happily had longer-than-month uptimes on it. I am a sample size of 1, but both the H240 and P440 controllers work, both in RAID and JBOD modes. With my other post on enabling USB that works fine on this machine as well. I'm happy with how OpenVMS is evolving.
As time went on, I eventually moved to an HPE DL150, which is very similar to a DL380G9 in tower form factor. Everything is working as expected, and I've happily had longer-than-month uptimes on it. I am a sample size of 1, but both the H240 and P440 controllers work, both in RAID and JBOD modes. With my other post on enabling USB that works fine on this machine as well. I'm happy with how OpenVMS is evolving.
Re: OpenVMS 9.2-1 on real hardware success.
Anyway, I have since had both V9.2-2 as well as E9.2-3 running on these DL380 Gen9 machines with the usual raid controller of them