CHARON-VAX/3198 for OpenVMS Integrity

CHARON-VAX/3198 for OpenVMS Integrity provides a quick solution for the owners of VAX3100 systems who want to move forward to the HP Integrity platform but do not want to change their application software.

Situation

Your VAX3100 system plays an important role in your company IT infrastructure. Unfortunately the VAX hardware is no longer manufactured and maintenance/repair becoming a problem. From a functional point of view there is no reason to replace the hardware, but action must be taken because the VAX-hardware is end-of-life and your installation is now at risk.

Migration of your existing software is an option, but a labor intensive and expensive one. The VAX successor itself (Alpha) is also already end-of-life and upgrading your software to the next generation is comparable with the migration effort.

Solution

CHARON-VAX/3198 rebuilds the hardware environment of a VAX3100-98 inside a HP Integrity server. The result is that your VAX software ‘recognizes’ the virtual VAX as the original VAX3100 and can continue to be used without applying any changes to the software. CHARON-VAX allows you to copy the content of your VAX disks to the new virtual VAX environment. You add many years to the life of your VAX applications with little effort.

CHARON-VAX/3198 for OpenVMS Integrity provides a quick solution for the owners of VAX3100 systems who want to move forward to the HP Integrity platform but do not want to change their application software.

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Benefits

  • Quick transition, no application changes

  • Inexpensive solution to the VAX end-of-life problem

  • All VAX3100-9x hardware supported in this virtual environment

  • Qualified and supported by HP, allows transfer of the OpenVMS operating system to the virtual VAX and prolongs the existing OpenVMS support services

  • The virtual VAX offers better performance than the original VAX hardware. You receive additional system capacity when you move to the virtual VAX.

  • Expensive VAX hardware maintenance can be reduced

  • CHARON-VAX allows you to better integrate the VAX-solution into your existing IT-infrastructure

  • Running multiple instances of this product inside 1 Integrity system (Multi CPU) brings great server consolidation capabilities

Pointers to Software Product Descriptions (PDF files)

The Software Product Description (SPD) includes a detailed description of the product as well as order number, license and support options.

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CHARON-VAX/3198 for OpenVMS Integrity
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