Keeping your services alive and available in the face of a myriad of disasters could prevent millions of dollars in business losses. In the event that your applications, systems or datacenter experiences a catastrophic failure, Solaris Cluster can ensure 24/7 access to all services. And now, the technology supporting that disaster recovery is available via open-source, allowing developers to quickly and regularly target new problems and scenarios.

Hal Stern, Vice President of Global Systems Engineering welcomes Keith White, Director of Availability Engineering to this edition of Innovating@Sun to discuss the details around the open sourcing of Solaris Cluster and how multiple parties within the ecosystem will benefit. Highlights include:

  • The seeding of open source from the Solaris Cluster product, namely Open High-Availability Cluster, and binary distribution of Solaris Cluster that runs on open Solaris.
  • A three-phased approach starting with agents, followed by the geographic edition (disaster recovery), and then finally, the core infrastructure.
  • How open sourcing of Solaris Cluster addresses a need in the system administrator development community.
  • How an open-source set of tools can stimulate better conversations between application developers and deployers about making products do what they should, when they should.
  • The release of the testing infrastructure to ensure that what has been developed actually works.
  • Details of the open license.

    Get the how-to guides. Contribute your content back to the community. And rest assured that any HA agent built on top of the open source platform will run on Solaris 3.2, giving you the benefit of an application on a supported distribution.

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    Open High Availability Cluster website
    How to contribute
    Sun Cluster Blog
    Press Release