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 Express 6/08 is now available for download!  You can
download the DVD image here.


What is new in this release?

*  This release runs on OpenSolaris Nevada build 86. The version of the
Sun Management Centre is now 3.1.

*  The HA agent for Solaris Containers is now enhanced to include
support for the Solaris 9 Branded Zones on SPARC platform. This
is very useful for those customers who still need to run some
applications on Solaris 9 while taking advantage of the new features of
Solaris 10 and above.


* The HA agent for PostgreSQL Database is now ehanced to support WAL
shipping.  This feature greatly enhances the deployment of PostgreSQL
database in Enterprise deployments.

* Support for Solaris Containers configured with exclusive IP is
included in this release.


* The SCX Geographic Edition is enhanced to support Oracle Data Guard
based replication.


* This release also contains the mandatory bug fixes and other minor
enhancements not mentioned above.

Stay tuned for more milestones along the open source journey!

Zen-Nippon Shokuhin Co., Ltd , which administers Zen Nishoku Chain of super markets in Japan has selected Solaris Cluster to support an Oracle 10g database with Real Application Clusters running on E6900 systems and Solaris 10 OS. The customer has moved from a main frame based solution to one based on less expensive open architecture.  For more details, you can visit  http://www.sun.com/customers/index.xml?c=zen_nippon.xml.

The combination of Solaris 10 OS, Solaris Cluster and StorageTek QFS provides best of the breed performance and reliability for Oracle RAC deployments and is a good alternative to migrate from existing proprietary hardware/OS at reduced cost.

Equally important is that all the produces are open sourced!  For details on the open source release of the Solaris Cluster software, visit the Open HA Cluster  community at opensolaris.org.

I am surprised that the news didn't come out much earlier but better late than never.   Oracle is officially entering the VM market with its own implementation of Xen.  These days it is not possible to be in the OS market without having 2 things:  1. a decent virtualization  road map  2. a neat set to management tools to manage the increasingly multi-vendor DC. 

However, no vendor has the range of solutions that Sun does!  LDOMS, xVM & Zones - all built in and proven technologies without having to pay a ransom for support!
 

The qualification of Oracle 10gR2 on Solaris cluster on x64 platform has been completed.  Now that is really good news!  With this, Oracle 10gR2 is certified on all supported platforms of Cluster!