Sun Cluster 3.1 : what is new in the updates e
Always wanted to be able to look at a summary of the new features offered by updates of Sun Cluster 3.1. Couldn’t find any so there it is :
Sun Cluster 10/03 :
- Cluster Reconfiguration Notification Protocol : let apps know about SC reconfiguation events
- Disk-Path Monitoring : disk path failure detection mechanism
- Application Traffic Striping Over the Sun Cluster Private Network
- Centralized Install : installing all nodes at same time
- Single Node Cluster
- New data services : Tomcat, MySQL, Oracle E-Business Suite, …
Relevant URL : SC3.1 U1 Release Notes
Sun Cluster 04/04 :
- New data services : Sun App.Server, Oracle 10G,SAP DB
- Sun Cluster Security Hardening using Solaris Security Toolkit
- Support of Sun Storedge QFS
Relevant URI : SC3.1 U2 Release Notes
Sun Cluster 09/04 :
- Ability to Change Global Heartbeat Parameters
- SPARC: Support for VxVM 4.0 and VxFS 4.0
- scversions Command : facilitates update of Sun Cluster software
- 16–Node Support
- IPv6 Support for Data Services
- Enhanced Inter-Resource-Group Dependencies and Inter-Resource Dependencies
- SPARC: Support for Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster With Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters
- SPARC: Support for Sun StorEdge QFS With Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters
- New data services : Sun Grid Engine, Oracle app.server, SAP app.server, …
Relevant URI : SC3.1 U3 Release Notes