Oracle Solaris Cluster

2014: Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2

On August 6, 2014 the Oracle corporation announced release of the solution Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2.

It is based on close integration with extensive means of virtualization and management of the corporate cloud Oracle Solaris 11.2 resources, provides the fast, exact, completely managed recovery after failures and emergency situations for a set of computing platforms and levels of applications, helping to reduce considerably unplanned idle times and to provide the maximum availability of services.

As a part of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2:

• the built-in support of high availability to more than 30 widespread packets of corporate applications, including new modules for Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One, Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Multitenant,
• new option Oracle Database 12c,
• the updated support of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

2013: Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1

Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 expands the functions of high availability and recovery at catastrophic failures implemented in Oracle Solaris and contains unique features of virtual clusters which provide effective consolidation of applications and the readiness, best in the class.

2011: Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0

The Oracle corporation announced in November, 2011 the beginning of sales of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0. In this version the optimized functions of high availability (high availability, HA) and recovery at catastrophic failures (disaster recovery, DR) for Oracle Solaris 11 OS which is completely supporting technology of cloud computing are for the first time offered. Oracle Solaris Cluster expands functionality of Oracle Solaris, providing the infrastructure of HA and DR necessary for deployment of crucial workloads in private, public and hybrid clouds and also in corporate data processing centers, says Oracle.

In general new version of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0: provides the built-in support of environments of cloud computing thanks to virtual clusters for safe deployment of crucial applications; allows customers to unroll a set of the isolated protected virtual clusters in the zones Oracle Solaris (Oracle Solaris Zone clustering); provides protection of the applications working in the environment of cloud computing thanks to detailed monitoring and management based on the politician and also to functions of restart and processing of failures; facilitates installation of a set of nodes of both Oracle Solaris, and Oracle Solaris Cluster using an automatic installer of Oracle Solaris 11; at last, offers the unified installation process and faultless software updating and also automatically determines and adjusts dependences between its components at the expense of the Oracle Solaris 11 Image Packaging System (IPS) system.

According to developers, Oracle Solaris Cluster is an optimal solution for ensuring high availability of corporate applications. So, the solution instantly, regardless of loading reveals failures and most quickly recovers services — due to integration into Oracle Solaris 11 at the kernel level. At this Oracle Solaris Cluster without additional settings supports a broad spectrum of Oracle applications and other suppliers and includes the means of processing of failures considering specifics of applications both in traditional and in the virtualized environments. At the same time, the solution differs in easy integration with applications of the customer and other suppliers, the built-in recovery tools at catastrophic failures (even on the most remote platforms).

In addition to everything, Oracle Solaris Cluster is optimized for obtaining the maximum advantages of joint work program and the hardware of Oracle. So, the solution is tested with the Oracle Sun servers, storage systems and network components, integrated with the optimized hardware and software system Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 and also is used as a part of Oracle Optimized Solutions for ensuring high availability in a portfolio of previously tested corporate infrastructure services. Oracle Solaris Cluster provides high availability of Oracle VM Server for SPARC virtual machines — one of the main technologies of runtime allocation of computing resources in the SPARC systems of series T — and is integrated with the solution Oracle Enterprise Manager for the automated selection of resources, detection, configuring and installation of patches on physical and virtual cluster groupings.

"Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 provides unprecedentedly high availability of corporate applications and databases in Oracle Solaris 11 and full support of the most resource-intensive applications of the customer practically in any possible situations — John Fowler, the executive vice president of Oracle for the Systems direction said. — Now, combining the major additional HA and DR functions in Oracle Solaris Cluster with the new features of Oracle Solaris 11 held for use in the environment of cloud computing, customers will be able to simplify infrastructure, considerably reduce scheduled and unplanned downtimes and also to protect crucial applications both in traditional, and in cloud environments".

This version of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 includes the built-in support of hardware-software products of Oracle, such as DBMS Oracle Database 11g (not cluster option and the cluster Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) option), the Oracle WebLogic Server application server and also Oracle Solaris 11 services, including Apache, Apache Tomcat, DHCP, DNS and NFS.