Following is a proposal for an HA Clusters community on opensolaris.org. Name:
?HA Clusters? Background: High-Availability (HA) Clusters are a class of tightly-coupled distributed systems that provide high availability of services through hardware and software monitoring and hardware redundancy. HA Clusters are often closely associated with the underlying operating system, and in many cases can be considered extensions of the OS. For example, approximately one half of the Solaris Cluster code runs in the Solaris kernel. Focus and Scope: The scope of the community will be implementations, ideas, innovations, and research around high-availability clusters on the OpenSolaris platform. This scope includes, but is not limited to, such areas as core technologies (eg. heartbeats, quorum, filesystems), APIs, system administration, application support code (agents), and test frameworks. Although the focus is on clusters for high-availability, as opposed to HPC clusters, grids, or other cluster technologies, we recognize that there is often overlap between the technologies for different kinds of clusters, and will not discourage fruitful conversations and projects as long as they relate to high availability. Initial Contributions: Sun Microsystems will contribute to the community the source code for Solaris Cluster, Sun's commercial HA Cluster product group, under the name ?Open High Availability Cluster.? This contribution will start at the time of community formation with the Sun Cluster Agents source for a wide portfolio of applications. A Sun Cluster Agent provides the ?glue? to allow an off-the-shelf application to run with high-availability on Sun Cluster software. Nominating Members: Bonnie Corwin Sara Dornsife Mike Kupfer Liane Praza Initial Contributors (all from Sun Microsystems): Nicholas Solter Suraj Verma Jonathan Mellors Prasad Dharmavaram Swathi Devulapalli Madhan Kumar Balasubramian Venkat Chennuru Subhadeep Sinha Lisa Shepherd Thelan Nguyen Lingling Chyu Sekhar Lakkapragada Meenakshi Kaul-Basu Thorsten Frueauf Neil Garthwaite Jatin Jhala Tim Read Detlef Ulherr Bob Bart Ashutosh Tripathi Hemachandran Namachivayam Initial Facilitator: Nicholas Solter Thanks, Nick
