Sun Cluster 3.2 11/09 release imminent
Sun will announce the availability of Sun Cluster 3.2 11/09. Several interesting features found their way into this release:
- Solaris Volume Manager Three-Mediator Support
- Oracle Automatic Storage Manager (ASM) on HA-Oracle and Oracle RAC
- SWIFTAlliance Access and Gateway 6.3
- Outgoing Connection Support for Scalable Services
- IPsec Security Association (SA) Failover for Scalable Services
- Campus Cluster With Hitachi Universal Replicator
- Sun Cluster HA for LDoms Guest Domain
- Generic Affinity for Scalable Services
- Round-Robin Load-Balancing Scheme for Scalable Services
- SCTP Support in Scalable Services
- Maintaining Solaris Systems with Solaris Live Upgrade and Update on Attach
Some features found their way into Sun Cluster 3.2 1/09 after it’s initial release via patches but aren’t part of the list of new features in 11/09
- EMC SRDF Data Recovery
- Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems With Oracle RAC
- Support for Sun Storage J4200/J4400 SATA Arrays
There is one important “feature” nearing the end-of-life:
The original Sun Cluster administrative command set, including commands with the prefix sc, might no longer be supported in a future release. Only the object-oriented command set, including commands beginning with the prefix cl, will be available.
You will find the release note of Sun Cluster 3.2 11/09 at wikis.sun.com PS: The observant reader will have it recognized it immediately this morning: I’ve copied the old 3.2 1/09 list into the article, not the actual 3.2 11/09 version before showering and drinking tea ;). This is the corrected list of new features.