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"Addressing Virtualization and High-Availability Needs with Sun Solaris Cluster", a white paper written by IDC analyst, Jean Bozman, is now available!

https://www.sun.com/offers/details/high_availability_solaris_cluster.xml

You will find from the paper:
- Businesses' High Availability needs in the Virtualized IT Environment and how Solaris Cluster addresses these requirements.
- Why Virtualization Software and High Availability Software are being used to protect applications
- Worldwide Availability and Clustering Software Revenue, 2008-2013
- Integration of High Availability and Virtualization Use Cases
- Solaris Cluster Customer Snapshots

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

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games has deployed Solaris Cluster 3.2 for mission critical systems. The Winter Olympics attracts lots of visitors both online and in the real world and hence it is no small matter for a product to be selected!  You can read the details at www.sun.com/customers/servers/vanoc.xml.

To know more about  Solaris Cluster visit www.sun.com/software/cluster.

Standalone QFS 4.6 FCS and later is supported as a failover filesystem in Solaris Containers managed by SC HA agent for Solaris Container 
with Solaris Cluster 3.2 2/08 and later.

This configuration is supported with Solaris 10 5/08 and later, on SPARC and x64, with HA Solaris Containers and HAStoragePlus.