Hi Rodger, This release is open source, the binaries can be downloaded and deployed, but the binaries are not freely redistributable. The registration step was also part of the earlier binary distributions of Solaris Cluster Express which aligned with Solaris Express. The specific terms are included in the license that you will see when you register and download.
The Open HA Cluster 2009.06 aligns with OpenSolaris 2009.06. The Open HA Cluster 2009.06 distribution will work only with OpenSolaris 2009.06 and any subsequent SRUs. A lot of effort was put into making sure that there is high level of integration with OpenSolaris 2009.06, so I would like to congratulate everyone who helped make this release successful and in time to coincide with OpenSolaris 2009.06 release. Download it today and try it out for yourself! Thanks and regards, Jatin Jhala HA Clusters Community Manager Rodger Etz-Brown wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > ha-clusters-discuss mailing list > ha-clusters-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ha-clusters-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ha-clusters-discuss/attachments/20090604/668b4146/attachment.html>
