Out of Sync: Maddy's Blog

Latest qualification for Solaris Cluster agents:

* The HA Oracle agent is now supported in Zone Clusters

* The HA MySQL agent now supports upto MySQL version  5.0.85

*Solaris Cluster agent for SAP WebAS now supports SAP 7.1 on SPARC. If you have a SC 3.2 GA agent then apply patch# 126062-06 to get support for SAP 7.1. If it is a fresh install then you can use theSAP WebAS agent from the SC 3.2 1/09 release.

*WebLogic Server agent is now supported in zone nodes.

 *Oracle 10gR2 Single Instance in LDom guest domains  is now supported.

 Stay tuned for more announcements!

One of the questions that we encounter often is what are the packages associated with a RT (Resource Type) or agent.  Well it is very simple.  If the RT is registered, you can use the clrt command to know them.

For example, let us assume that I wish to know the packages associated with the SC telemetry RT:

 bash-3.00# clrt show sctelemetry

=== Registered Resource Types ===

Resource Type:                                  SUNW.sctelemetry
  RT_description:                                  sctelemetry service for Sun Cluster
  RT_version:                                      1
  API_version:                                     7
  RT_basedir:                                      /usr/cluster/lib/rgm/rt/sctelemetry
  Single_instance:                                 True
  Proxy:                                           False
  Init_nodes:                                      All potential masters
  Installed_nodes:                                 <All>
  Failover:                                        False
  Pkglist:                                         SUNWsctelemetry
  RT_system:                                       False
  Global_zone:                                     False

However, remember that there is a chance that some Agents have more than one RT and hence they may have multiple packages associated with them.

Its out, folks! 

Solaris Cluster is now supported in LDoms Guest domains! This adds to the existing support for Solaris Cluster on I/O domains. Please refer to (SPARC) Support for Logical Domains (LDoms) Guest Domains as Cluster Nodes for the detailed explanation along with pictorial representation. If you see the future of data center in virtualization, then Solaris Cluster is the right choice for its widest range of technologies - Zones, LDoms, a xVM agent in the works etc.

Yet another feather in the cap of the team that is striving hard to bring you the best in High Availability software.

The HA xVM agent is available for download in the Open HA Cluster community! You can find the details at: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ha-xvm/.

 To get you started quickly on the topic, a cheat sheet has also been provided! Now that is what I call user friendly!
The design document has been updated to include the latest feedback as well.

 This is an important milestone for the project.  Happy Clustering!