Hi, sorry to bother you again, but I am wondering why I have to register in order to download Open Source software binaries. Especially when the sources can be obtained without.
Or is this release not 100% Open Source and therefore cannot be redistributed by third parties? Thanks and regards, Rodger On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:44:18AM -0600, Nicholas Solter wrote: > We are pleased to announce the release of High Availability Cluster > software for OpenSolaris 2009.06! If you've been following along, this > release is the fruit of project Colorado. Open HA Cluster 2009.06 is > based on Solaris Cluster 3.2, including many of the features from the > most recent update. Additionally, Open HA Cluster 2009.06 contains the > following new features: > > * The ability to use Crossbow VNICs as endpoints for the cluster private > interconnects. You can even send the cluster traffic over the public > network and secure it with IPsec. > > * Support for exporting locally attached storage as iSCSI targets with > COMSTAR iSCSI. You can obtain redundant ?shared storage? without true > shared storage by creating a mirrored zpool out of iSCSI-accessible > local disks on two different nodes of the cluster. > > Taken together, these features contribute to ?hardware minimization,? > allowing you to form a cluster with fewer physical hardware requirements. > > This release runs on both SPARC and x86/x64 systems and includes the > following agents: Apache Webserver, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, GlassFish, > NFS, DHCP, NFS, Kerberos, Samba, and Solaris Containers (for ipkg Zones). > > Open HA Cluster 2009.06 is distributed as IPS packages from the > https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/ha-cluster repository. In order to > obtain access, accept the license agreement at https://pkg.sun.com to > obtain a certificate and key. Follow the instructions given at > registration to configure your system's access to the ha-cluster > publisher. > > To install the complete cluster, including agents, install the > ?ha-cluster-full? package. To install a minimal cluster, without agents > and other optional components, install the ?ha-cluster-minimal? package > instead. You can then install the individual agents and other optional > components. > > Open HA Cluster 2009.06 is free to use, with production level support > offerings available for two-node clusters. This release runs on > OpenSolaris 2009.06 only. > > For more information, see: > > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ha-clusters/ohac/Documentation/OHACdocs/ > http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/availability/ > > If you don't have physical hardware available to create a cluster, check > out the following paper on running in with VirtualBox: > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/colorado/files/Whitepaper-OpenHAClusterOnOpenSolaris-external.pdf > > Please direct your questions and comments to > ha-clusters-discuss at opensolaris.org . > > The Colorado Team > > _______________________________________________ > ha-clusters-discuss mailing list > ha-clusters-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ha-clusters-discuss
