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
