Solaris Cluster 3.2 1/09 available for download!
The new Solaris Cluster
3.2 1/09 update adds innovative business continuity
capabilities for Oracle RAC in Solaris virtual environments, enables
increased high
availability with new monitoring capabilities and configuration
advisers, supports
more types of storage solutions and provides simplified configurations.
Details:
The new features include :
* Core*
Solaris Container Cluster
Optional fencing
Quorum extensions with Software Quorum and Quorum Monitoring
New configuration checker
Optional dedicated partition for global-devices namespace
Exclusive IP in Solaris Container
IPsec on the Cluster Interconnect
ZFS as root file system
* Geographic Edition
Support for Oracle Data Guard
Support for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite with Solaris Container running applications
* Supported applications and agent features
New agent:
- Informix IDS on Solaris 10 (SPARC and x64)
New feature
- PostgreSQL agent support for PostgreSQL WAL shipping.
New supported application versions
SAP 7.1
MaxDB 7.7
WebLogic Server 9.2, 10.0, 10.2 in Solaris Container
SwiftAlliance Access 6.2
SwiftAlliance Gateway 6.1
JES MQ 4.1, 4.2
JES Application Server (9.1UR2, Glassfish V2 UR2)
JES Web Server (7.0u4)
MySQL 5.1
Apache Proxy Server (2.2.5 and version bundled with
Solaris 10 10/08 and 5/08)
Apache Web Server (2.2.5 and version bundled with
Solaris 10 10/08 and 5/08)
Agfa IMPAX 6.3
IBM Websphere MQ v7
Solaris 9 Container
Resources:
For additional details http://sun.com/cluster
Download: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/cluster/get.html
Engineering blog at: http://blogs.sun.com/SC/
Documentation: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4683
The Solaris Container cluster is sure to make you rethink about the economics of HA in a virtualized environment. For a cheat sheet, refer to my previous blog entry!