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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 following 3.2 HA MySQL patches are available for download:

Compellent Technologies has partnered with Sun to offer Solaris Cluster certification on their Storage Center arrays. The interoperability matrix for Compellent is now listed at: 

http://www.sun.com/software/cluster/osp/compellent_interop.xml