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Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09 is now available

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Solaris Cluster is a multi-system, multi-site high availability and disaster recovery solution that manages the availability of applications services and data across local, regional and geographically dispersed data centers. The Solaris Cluster environment extends the Solaris Operating System into a cluster operating system.

If you are following the Solaris Cluster product and features, you would have noticed extreme innovation by Sun in the high availability and disaster recovery space since the time we released our first HA product many years ago. For well over a decade, Solaris Cluster has been a market leader for providing business continuity and disaster recovery solutions to all mission critical business applications, spanning all the major industry segments.

Continuing with our tradition of innovation, we are pleased to announce another release - "Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09" - an update to the Solaris Cluster 3.2 product.

This new release brings more features for high availability, virtualization, disaster recovery, flexibility, diagnosibility, and ease of use. We are extending support for virtualization with more options for Solaris Containers Clusters (zone clusters), failover Solaris Containers, and LDoms.  This release provides more file system and volume management choices. We have added new replication solutions for disaster recovery deployments, in addition to improving scalable services support. This release also brings support for the latest versions of many third-party software applications.

The following is a list of some of the new features in this update release:

- New deployment options for Oracle DB, RAC, and applications

  • Solaris Containers cluster support for more Oracle solutions:
    • Oracle E-Business Suite
    • Siebel CRM 8
    • Single-instance Oracle database
  • Support for Oracle Automated Storage Management (ASM) with single-instance Oracle database
  • Support of Reliable Data Sockets over Infiniband for RAC
- Infrastructure features
  • Standalone QFS 4.6 & later in failover Solaris Containers
  • Upgrade on attach for failover Solaris Containers
  • Solaris Volume Manager three-mediator support in Campus Cluster deployments
  • Hitachi Universal Replicator support in Campus Cluster deployments
  • Support for 1TB disks as a quorum devices
- Scalable services features
  • Outgoing connection support for scalable services
  • IPsec support for Scalable Services traffic
  • SCTP support for Scalable services
  • Managed failover of IPsec session & key information
  • Round-robin load balancing
- Geographic Edition
  • Hitachi Universal Replicator support
  • Script-based plugin replication module
  • MySQL replication
- Supported applications and agent features
  • New agent: HA Agent for LDoms guest domains
  • New supported application version: SWIFTAlliance Access & Gateway 6.3
Check here for additional details about the features listed above. Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09 is supported on Solaris 10 5/09 and 10/09 . Refer to the release notes to get a list of minimum patches required to run this update. The release notes also has links to the product documentation for all the features listed above.

This feature-rich and high-quality product can be downloaded from here. Download and try this latest Solaris Cluster release. We look forward to your comments.

Thanks,

Prasad Dharmavaram
Roma Baron
Solaris Cluster Engineering

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Comments ( 1 )
  • chanaka Tuesday, March 1, 2011

    can some one give me the release note for the sun cluster 3.2 U3 12/09 ?

    or documentation link ?


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