How 'suite' it is... - Jackie Gleason The "Availability Suite"

The face of Sun StorageTek Availability Suite has changed quite a bit since June '06, when AVS 4.0 was released, supporting Solaris 10 on SPARC and x64/x86 platforms. In February '07, Availabilty Suite became an OpenSolaris Project, and now in June '07, Availability Suite reaches yet another new milestone, being a product offering in the Try Sun Products Free for 60 Days program.

The Sun StorageTek Availability Suite try for 60 days program provides a pair of Solaris host-based data services, supporting all Solaris file systems, most Solaris databases, plus Sun and 3rd-party applications. Availability Suite works with and across all Solaris volumes managers, SVM, ZFS's zvols, any block storage devices, being direct-attached, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, all independent of the underlying level of redundancy, or the physical device type  or storage array.

Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Point-in-Time Copy software creates and instantly accessible, for both reading and writing, an independent, dependent or compact dependent copy (no clones needed) of ANY volume on ANY storage. Creation can be 1-to-1, or 1-to-many, and the many can be any of the supported copy types. The resulting shadow volumes can be used on the local host, or if an independent copy was created on dual-host or SAN accessible storage, in can be used on any other similarly connected host, in both a read and write manner, without loosing the ability for a fast-resynchronization, avoiding a full-copy later on.

Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Remote Mirror Copy software enables real-time synchronous or asynchronous data replication to either local campus, metro, or remote data centers. Remote Mirror copies can be 1-to-1, 1-to-many or multi-hop as in A-to-B, then B-to-C. As part of its disaster recovery features, it supports both role-reversal (primary and secondary node swap roles), or on-demand reverse synchronization, where instantly after invoking a secondary to primary copy, the primary volume can be accesses for read and write, where un-replicated blocks are fetched on-demand.

The Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Point-in-Time Copy  & Remote Mirror Copy software are fully integrated, providing features such as point-in-time vs. real-time replication, data migration between Solaris 8, 9, 10 and OpenSolaris platforms. Availability Suite will also become part of Solaris 11 (Nevada) before the end of Q4FY07 (this month).

Sun StorageTek Availability Suite is fully integrated with Solaris Cluster, Solaris Cluster GeoGrapic Edition and Netra High Availability Suite, as a key component in bringing high availability to these product offerings.