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The latest core patches available for download:

126105-33   Sun Cluster 3.2: CORE patch for Solaris 9

126106-33   Sun Cluster 3.2: CORE patch for Solaris 10

126107-33   Sun Cluster 3.2: CORE patch for Solaris 10_x86

The first release of Solaris Cluster Express is now available for download from the following link: http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=46a94a22. You can run it on build 67 of Nevada. Remember, in this release, the agents are open sourced! The next project planned for open source is cluster's DR solution - Geographic Edition!

Just to re-iterate, the software can run on *32 bit platforms as well* !!  That means you can form a cluster on your laptop itself!  Yes.  Download the software on your laptop with Solaris OS * (S10u3) and make a single node cluster. Create multiple zones within the node and failover applications between zones!  All you need to do is check if the SUNWscka package is installed.  If it is not, add it from the distribution.

This great for consultants who need to demo failover between nodes to customers without the luxury of having 64 bit boxes.  Hopefully this release will do to Sun Cluster what OpenSolaris did to Solaris!!