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Posted on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005 at 2:03 pm. About s10 stories, Sun Cluster.

Future of Sun Cluster

Could attend a presentation of the Sun Cluster team and the features that are coming soon. Lot of people were there because everyone wants to know if / when / how Sun Cluster will take advantage of the new S10 features. No timeframe officially given for each release. Educated guess sometimes available ;)

Besides the two next updates of SC3.1 and the future of Sun Cluster ( 3.2 ? ), note the appearance of a new product : Sun Cluster Geographic Edition.

Disclaimer : absolutely no commitment from Sun about the exact feature set and the timing at which the individual features will be released !

Sun Cluster 3.1 U4 ( Around september… )

  • Support of Solaris 10
  • Support of Oracle RAC on NAS storage from Network Appliance
  • 8 nodes for Oracle RAC
  • Support of Infiniband
  • Live Upgrade
  • Shared Interconnect with VLAN
  • New data services : NFSv4, Siebel 7.7, Sybase 12.5, Oracle RAC on S10 for x86

Sun Cluster 3.1 U5

  • Red Hat Linux support
  • AMD64 support
  • SMF integration
  • ZFS as a failover FS
  • EFI disk label support
  • SNMP event MIB
  • New data services : Some Linux agents

Future of Sun Cluster ( possibilities rather than facts )

  • Service Level Mgt - Workload monitoring
  • More S10 integration : local zones, SMF for data services
  • Simplified command interface. Wizards.
  • 16-node Oracle RAC

Long term objective : Full integration with other Cluster products, including Geographic edition and N1 provisioning products.

Relevant Links :
More info on Infiniband
Benefits of RAC on Sun Cluster

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition





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