Solaris Cluster 3.1 and 3.2 not only supports Sun Blade X6240, both releases also are offered with Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275, allowing all of these servers to be deployed in a Solaris Cluster environment. Solaris Cluster is a multi-system, multi-site disaster recovery solution that manages the availability of applications services and data across local, regional, and vastly dispersed datacenters.

Deployment in a Solaris Cluster environment helps in managing service levels and increasing availability to application deployments.

The Sun Fire X4170 server is an x64 server in a 1RU form factor that can power demanding mission-critical back office applications. The Sun Fire X4270 server is ideal for application virtualization or as a virtual desktop infrastructure server. The Sun Fire X4275 server is the best storage server in its class, Sun says, to drive the next near-line storage solution -- be it for digital media solutions or for data driven decision using data warehousing applications.

Together with Solaris Cluster, these three Sun Fire servers are ideal platforms for deploying new IT infrastructure which are highly available, reliable, performant and enabling delivery of higher service levels, at lower service level costs and reduced risk.

Details of support for the Sun Fire X4170, X4270, X4275 servers are as follows:

Supported Operating Systems

Solaris 10 10/08 + patches and higher.

Supported Solaris Cluster Release

All versions of Solaris Cluster 3.2. Solaris Cluster 3.1 8/05 will be supported with these platforms as soon as it is qualified with Solaris 10 10/08, Sun reports.

Supported Storage

Sun StorageTek 2510, Sun StorageTek 2530, Sun StorageTek 2540, Sun StorageTek 3510 (RAID), Sun StorageTek 6140, Sun StorageTek 6540 Sun Storage J4200, Sun Storage J4400 (list of supported storage subject to change)

Supported HBA

SG-XPCIE2FC-QF4, SG-XPCIE1FC-QF4, SG-XPCIE2FC-EM4, SG-XPCIE1FC-EM4, SG-XPCIE1FC-EM8-Z, SG-XPCIE2FC-EM8-Z, SG-XPCIE2FC-QF8-Z, SG-XPCIE1FC-QF8-Z, SG-XPCIE8SAS-E-Z

Private Interconnect

X4446A-Z, X7280A-2, X7281A-2, X1236A-Z Onboard Ethernet

Public Network

X4446A-Z, X7280A-2, X7281A-2 Onboard Ethernet

Licensing Requirements

Solaris Cluster uses the following licensing scheme:

• One server entitlement per physical system in the cluster. If a system has multiple domains, with some or all domains participating in same or different clusters, only one Solaris Cluster server RTU license is needed for that system.

• One agent entitlement per agent for the entire cluster.

More Information

Sun Blade X6240 with Solaris Cluster 3.1 and 3.2

Solaris Cluster

Sun Fire X4170 Server

Sun Fire X4270 Server

Sun Fire X4275 Server [...read more...]

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