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As a first step it is required to create a CHARON Virtual Machine (VM) using the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager in the following way:

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Specify the HP Alpha model to be emulated and the name of the VM , then press the "Create" button:

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The VM will be created:

Select the VM from the left pane and switch to the "VM Configuration" tab.

Press In order to reproduce the target HP Alpha configuration, press the "Edit Configuration file" button:

The VM configuration file will be opened in Notepad. Now we are ready to update this file to reprocude the target HP Alpha configuration Alternatively it is possible to select the target CHARON VM and press the "Edit Configuration" button.

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The next step is to determine the exact configuration of your the HP Alpha hardware in order to create the CHARON VM configuration file.

Turn on your the source HP Alpha system. At the ">>>" prompt, issue the "show device" command:

>>>show device

sys0.0.0.0.0 SYS0 System ROOT Device
ewa0.0.0.1.1 EWA0 F8-D1-11-00-67-E6
pka0.0.0.2.1 PKA0 Q-Logic/ISP PCI SCSI HBA
pga0.0.0.3.1 PGA0 WWN 1000-0000-0248-C550
pqa0.0.0.15.0 PQA0 ALi 1553C Integrated IDE Controller
pqb0.0.1.15.0 PQB0 ALi 1553C Integrated IDE Controller
dqa0.0.0.15.0 DQA0 TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-222BB
dka0.0.0.2.1 DKA0 DEC RZ28 (C)DEC
dka100.1.0.2.1 DKA100 DEC RZ22 (C)DEC
dka200.2.0.2.1 DKA200 DEC RZ23 (C)DEC
mka600.6.0.2.1 MKA600 Virtual SCSI Tape

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To get more detailed information, boot OpenVMS and issue the "show dev device /full" command:

$ show device /full

Disk PFCAXP$DKA0:, device type RZ28, is online, mounted, file-oriented device,
 shareable, available to cluster, error logging is enabled.
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Disk PFCAXP$DKA100:, device type RZ22, is online, file-oriented device,
 shareable, available to cluster, error logging is enabled.
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Disk PFCAXP$DKA200:, device type RZ23, is online, file-oriented device,
 shareable, available to cluster, error logging is enabled.
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Disk PFCAXP$DQA0:, device type TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-222BB, is online, file-oriented
 device, shareable, available to cluster, error logging is enabled.
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Disk $1$DGA0: (PFCAXP), device type RZ24, is online, file-oriented device,
 shareable, available to cluster, error logging is enabled.
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Magtape PFCAXP$MKA600:, device type Virtual SCSI Tape, is online, file-oriented
 device, available to cluster, error logging is enabled, device supports
 fastskip (per_io).
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Terminal OPA0:, device type VT102, is online, record-oriented device, carriage
 control.
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Device EWA0:, device type DE500, is online, network device, device is a template
 only.
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Device FGA0:, device type KGPSA Fibre Channel, is online, shareable, error
 logging is enabled.
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Device PGA0:, device type SCSI FCP, is online, error logging is enabled.

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Device PKA0:, device type Qlogic ISP1020 SCSI port, is online, error logging is
 enabled.
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Device $1$GGA32767:, device type Generic SCSI device, is online, shareable.

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In case of If Tru64 UNIX V5 is running on the host system, it is recommended to use the following commands to get information on the host configuration:

Command	Description
`#/sbin/hwmgr view devices`	Get detailed information about the host hardware configuration
`#/sbin/hwmgr show scsi`	Get specific information about the host SCSI controllers and attached disks
`#/sbin/hwmgr view hierarchy`	Get information about the host controllers

Please reference refer to the Tru64 UNIX User's Guide for more details.

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In some particular situations it is also important to know the exact placement of all the peripheral devices on the HP Alpha PCI bus. To get that information issue do so, issue the "show config" command at ">>>" prompt of the SRM prompt (>>>) on the HP Alpha console, for . For example:

>>>show config

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PCI Bus

Bus 00 Slot 03: DECchip 21142 Network Controller
ewa0.0.0.3.0 00-00-F8-03-9A-6D

Bus 00 Slot 07: Cypress PCI Peripheral Controller

Bus 00 Slot 07: Function 1: PCI IDE

Bus 00 Slot 07: Function 2: PCI IDE

Bus 00 Slot 07: PCI USB

Bus 00 Slot 08: DECchip 21052 PCI to PCI Bridge

Bus 01 Slot 08: ISP1040 Scsi Controller
pka0.7.0.1008.0 SCSI Bus ID 7
dka0.0.0.1008.0 RZ2DD-KS
dka400.4.0.1008.0 RRD45

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The "show config" command collects the following information of placement of peripheral devices on the PCI bus:

Bus number
Slot number
Function number

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Creation of the CHARON-AXP configuration file

Using the above infoinformation, the following configuration parameters and values can be created instead of set in the template configuration file:

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# HP AlphaServer model: AlphaServer ES40 6/667
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set session hw_model = AlphaServer_ES40
set ace cpu_architecture = EV67
set rom dsrdb[0] = 1820 system_name = "AlphaServer ES40 6/667"

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# Override default System Serial Number, set it to "SN01234567"
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set rom system_serial_number = SN01234567

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# Specify RAM size: 512 Mb
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set ram size=512

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# Map OPA0 console to "Putty" terminal emulator (included in CHARON-AXP kit)
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load virtual_serial_line OPA0 port=10003 application="putty -load OPA0"

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# Ð¡onnect the emulator's DQA0 to the host's ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive.
#

set ide container="\\.\CdRom0"

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# Load optional DE500BA PCI Ethernet Adapter (EWA0) and map it to the "Charon" host network interface
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load DE500BA/dec21x4x EWA interface=EWA0
load packet_port/chnetwrk EWA0 interface="connection:Charon"

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# Load DEC-KZPBA SCSI controller and map it to 3 disk containers and 1 tape container
#

load KZPBA PKA scsi_id = 7

set PKA container[0] = "C:\My disks\bootable.vdisk"
set PKA container[100] = "C:\My disks\RZ22.vdisk"
set PKA container[200] = "C:\My disks\RZ23.vdisk"

set PKA container[600] = "C:\My tapes\my_tape.vtape"

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# Load DEC-KGPSA-CA PCI FC adapter and map it to a disk container
#

load KGPSA FGA

set FGA container[0] = "C:\My disks\RZ24.vdisk"

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In our example, possible mappings of KZPBA SCSI controller include disk and tape images. Tape The tape images have not to be manually created whereas you the disk images have to provision disk images, be created as described below.

Our example creates disk images of the original physical type. In reality, this step is the best opportunity in the migration to provision bigger disks to get extra storage space.

Create special directories for storing the disk and tape images, as needed. Created directories are referenced in the sample configuration file above.

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Alternatively it is possible to put the tape and disk images in the CHARON VM Home Directory.

Start the "MkDisk" utility by pressing the "Virtual Disk Image generatorTool" button in the "Host Information & Utilities" tab of the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager:

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The main following dialog of the utility will appear:

Select "Alpha AXP" in the "Select System" drop-down menu, "SCSI" in the "All Controllers" drop-down menu and "RZ24" (for example) in the "Select Disk Type" drop-down menu.

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The utility will ask you to specify the output file name. Select the "C:\My disks" directory created just before (or create it directly in the dialog) and press the "Save" button:

The "MkDisk" utility will create the requested disk image:

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The next step is to transfer the data from the source HP Alpha system to CHARON-AXP. The easiest way to do this is via backup over the network . But but for this operation we need a bootable , network-enabled operating system on a CHARON-AXP disk image or physical disk is needed.

The example configures the CHARON-AXP AlphaServer ES40 system for installation of HP OpenVMS from a distribution CD-ROM (usually it is "\\.\CdRom0" if the host has only one CD-ROM drive):

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DKA300 will be the disk where all the source disks will be copied , so its size needs to be big enough to store all the disk backup images.

Create an empty disk image for installation of HP OpenVMS and another one for storing the backups from the source HP Alpha system as it is shown in the section above.

Run the CHARON VM and boot from the CDROM named "dqa0" ("migration.cfg" is the configuration file we use in this example):

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Install HP Alpha/VMS including DECnet on "dka400". The DECnet address must belong to the same area as the source HP Alpha system.

Login to the newly installed OpenVMS system and initialize the disk intended for backups storage. Let's assume it's that will be used to store the backups. Let's assume its prompt is "newvms$ "

newvms$ INIT DKA300: SCRATCH
newvms$ MOUNT/SYSTEM/NOASSIST DKA300: SCRATCH

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Now we are ready to create the disk backups from of the source HP Alpha system to on the CHARON VM.

Boot the CHARON VM and make sure that the source HP Alpha system is available via DECnet.

Login to the source HP Alpha system. Stop all the batch queues, kick off the users, stop all the applications and close the databases if anythere are. The commands listed in SYS$MANAGER:SYSHUTDWN.COM may be helpful. The goal is to close as many files as possible. The system disk will have several files opened (pagefile, swapfile, etc.) , but this is normal.

The use of the "SHOW DEVICE /FILES" command would be of help to list opened files on a disk
Let's assume

In this example, the CHARON VM system is node 1.400

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Issue

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the following commands from the source HP Alpha

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. Let's assume its is "source$ "

source$ BACKUP/IMAGE/IGNORE=INTERLOCK DKA0: 1.400"username password"::DKA300:[000000]DKA0.BCK/SAVE
source$BACKUP/IMAGE/IGNORE=INTERLOCK DKA100: 1.400"username password"::DKA300:[000000]DKA100.BCK/SAVEsource$ BACKUP/IMAGE/IGNORE=INTERLOCK DKA200: 1.400"username password"::DKA300:[000000]DKA200.BCK/SAVE

Once the backup procedure completes, the disk "DKA300" of the CHARON VM will contain 3 savesets: "DKA0.BCK", "DKA100.BCK" and "DKA200.BCK"

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Restore backups to CHARON-AXP disks

Next, restore the new savesets to The savesets have now to be restored on their corresponding virtual disks. Login to the CHARON VM guest OS and issue this sequence of commands to restore all the savesets created on the previous stepof commands:

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newvms$ MOUNT/FOREIGN DKA0:

newvms$ BACKUP/IMAGE DKA300:[000000]DKA0.BCK/SAVE DKA0:

newvms$ DISMOUNT DKA0:

newvms$ MOUNT/FOREIGN DKA100:

newvms$ BACKUP/IMAGE DKA300:[000000]DKA100.BCK/SAVE DKA100:

newvms$ DISMOUNT DKA100:

newvms$ MOUNT/FOREIGN DKA200:

newvms$ BACKUP/IMAGE DKA300:[000000]DKA200.BCK/SAVE DKA200:

newvms$ DISMOUNT DKA200:

If you are going to have the CHARON VM and the original physical HP Alpha on the network at the same time, you must change the network identity of one (system, usually the CHARON VM).

The easiest way is to boot the CHARON VM virtualized system on the restored system disk with the network Disabled disabled and to configure new addresses , as neededthen enable the network and reboot.

The NIC can be disabled with a interface="connection:(disabled)" statement in the CHARON VM configuration configuration file.

Then Enable the network and reboot.

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Connect a SCSI tape drive to the CHARON-AXP host via a PCI card
- Map the tape drive in the CHARON VM configuration file
  a. Restore the source HP Alpha system backups from tape to disk images via OpenVMS running on the CHARON VM.
  b. Boot from standalone from standalone backups and restore its the content to CHARON to the CHARON VM virtual disks
- Dump the source HP Alpha system backups to tape images with "mtd" utility and:
  a. Boot from freshly installed OpenVMS system and restore the tape images to the CHARON VM virtual disks
  b. Boot from standalone backups and restore its the content to CHARON to the CHARON VM virtual disks
Create a network cluster between the source HP Alpha system and the CHARON VM (it is possible to use the source system as boot server); then simple backup from one disk to another:
$ BACKUP/IMAGE/IGNORE=INTERLOCK REAL$DKA0: DKA0:

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