More options for customers to deploy Solaris Cluster!

We are pleased to announce that 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

This new partnership continues to drive customer choice by offering a wider selection of supported storage arrays from leading vendors, like Compellent, for their Solaris Cluster deployments.

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/cluster/index.xml

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

http://www.compellent.com/

Irene Israel

Senior Program Manager, Solaris Cluster

3PAR is Solaris Cluster's newest enterprise class storage partner.  The InServ Storage Servers, which include the E-Class, F-Class, S-Class and T-Class models, are now now listed on the Solaris Cluster 3rd party storage matrix:

http://www.sun.com/software/cluster/osp/3par_inserv.xml

3PAR is a leading provider of utility storage a category of highly virtualized and dynamically tiered storage arrays. The inclusion of 3PAR
support on Solaris Cluster adds another dynamic storage option for Solaris Cluster customers to deploy.

Irene Israel

Senior Program Manager, Solaris Cluster

January, 2008 is working out to a great start to the New Year!  We have the following updates in relation to Sun Cluster and 3rd party Storage offerings.

We've increased the NetApp NAS configuration from 32 to 48 nodes, effective this week. This is a significant step with the goal of ultimately supporting 62 nodes, which we hope to have support for in the future. We've also included the "M" Series high end servers to the NetApp matrix. The servers included are the M4000, M5000, M8000 and the M9000 Sun Sparc based OPL based platforms. They are "All" now supported on Sun Cluster 3.2.

We are also happy to report that we've included a "New" storage array in the product offerings from NEC; the D3 and D8 Arrays. More information can be found at http://www.nec.co.jp/necstorage/global/product/san/d3_10/index.html

In February, 2008 we've included the following offerings on Sun Cluster 3.2: 

IBM:

*T5120 & T5220 

* x4150 & 4450

* Sun Blades 6220, 6250 & x8440 

HP:

 *T5120 & T5220

* x4150 & 4450

* Sun Blades 6220, 6250 & x8440

Hitachi Data Systems:

 *T5120 & T5220 across all HDS Storage Arrays

NEC Corporation:

* NEC's 'New' iStorage D3 and D8 Arrays

* T5120 & T5220 Servers

* x4150 & 4450 Servers

* Sun Blades 6300, 6320, 6220, 6250 & x8440

Until next time!

 
Roger Autrand
Sr. Manager, Sun Cluster Availability

Solaris Cluster the premiere choice among Solaris Sparc and x64 users continues to roll out new configurations on 3rd party supported storage.

For those of you who may frequently or infrequently visit our blog, one of the highlights for 2008 is the support of ,"EMC storage on Sun Cluster 3.2".  This applies to both Symmetrix and Clarion storage devices. All the latest information relating to Solaris Cluster and EMC interoperability can be found at http://www.sun.com/software/cluster/osp

 

Here you will find information pertaining to

*  Solaris Cluster EMC Clarion Storage interoperability 

*  Solairs Cluster EMC Symmetrix Storage interoperability

*  Sun and EMC Partnership information 

*  Software and Interoperability Data sheet

*  Solaris Cluster Geographical Edition with EMC SRDF 

In January, the following Servers on Solaris Cluster  were announced to be interoperable with Symmetrix and Clarion Storage Arrays.

- T5120 & 5220

- M8000 & M9000

- Sun Blade T6300, T6220 & T6250

- x4150 server 

Feel free to post a question or provide feedback for any topics of discussion you'd like to learn about!

Roger Autrand
Sr. Manager, Sun Cluster Availability

Sun Microsystems announced today, support for Solaris Cluster on non-Sun servers, through the Solaris Cluster Open Hardware Program. To learn more about supported configurations and FAQ's please visit: http://www.sun.com/software/cluster/ohp. Sun and HP customers now have the option of running Solaris Cluster on HP Proliant DL 385 G2 and Proliant DL 585 G2 servers. The benefit being a robust availability solution with unequaled reliability for end users.

The intent of this blog entry is to share some of what we learned during the initial implementation of the Solaris Cluster Open Hardware Program on HP ProLiant servers.

First step in the process of the Solaris installation, is to familiarize yourself with the documentation that ships with the HP Proliant servers. Second step is to ensure that the servers are racked and cabled (power and network) and ready for configuration of the iLO 2 processor. HP ProLiant servers utilize the Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) remote management software. This is similar to the Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) host management software that Sun x86/x64 servers use. The iLO 2 processor is accesible via a dedicated ethernet port and gets its power from the auxiliary power plane of the server, so it is always available when the server is plugged in. The iLO 2 processor can be assigned a static IP address or can be configured to obtain its IP address via DHCP (this is the default setting for servers shipped from HP). Please refer to the HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 User Guide for changing the Network Settings to utilize a static IP.

Consoles: you have the option to use the serial connection on the servers (ttya), a keyboard and monitor, or a virtual serial console from the iLO 2. Configure and set up the appropriate choice you feel best for your environment.

Hardware RAID for the internal drives is enabled by default. Thus, if using two internal drives, a RAID 1 logical volume is preseneted to the OS.

The different ways to install Solaris on HP ProLiant servers are documented in the  Sun Solaris 10 Deployment Guide for HP ProLiant Servers.
We recommend the PXE based network installation method. A couple of observations:

- The standard Solaris distribution does not contain packages for the hardware RAID driver (CPQary) and the onboard NICs (BRCMbnx). These drivers can be downloaded here.

- Once the dhcp server is set up, modify the file /tftpboot/menu.lst<BootFile: Name> as follows:

Change line 4 from

    kernel /I86PC.Solaris_10-1/multiboot kernel/unix -B

to:

    kernel /I86PC.Solaris_10-1/multiboot kernel/unix - install dhcp -B

We hope you find these tips useful. Stay tuned for further updates as the Solaris Cluster Open Hardware Program expands.

Vishwanth Mantha
Matt Ostberg