Availability of High Availability Cluster software for OpenSolaris 2009.06 or Open HA Cluster 2009.06 has been announced by Sun. Based on Solaris Cluster 3.2 and Project Colorado, OpenHA Cluster 2009.06 includes new features that contribute to “hardware minimization,” allowing users to form a cluster with fewer physical hardware requirements. 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.

Open HA Cluster 2009.06 contains the following new features:

• The ability to use Crossbow VNICs as endpoints for the cluster private interconnects. Users 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. Users 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.

It runs on both SPARC and x86/x64 systems and the following agents come with the release:

• Apache Webserver
• Apache Tomcat
• MySQL
• GlassFish
• NFS
• DHCP
• NFS
• Kerberos
• Samba
• Solaris Containers (for ipkg Zones)

Distributed as IPS packages from the https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/ha-cluster repository, Open HA Cluster 2009.06 does require registration with acceptance of the license agreement at https://pkg.sun.com, which provides users with a certificate and key.

For the complete cluster with the agents, install the “ha-cluster-full” package. If a minimal cluster is preferred without agents and other optional components, install the “ha-cluster-minimal” package. Users do have the option of installing individual agents and other optional components.

The Colorado team suggests trying Open HA Cluster 2009.06 on VirtualBox if the physical hardware to create a cluster is lacking. See the white paper "Open HA Cluster on OpenSolaris" by Thorsten Frueauf for information.

More Information

Open HA Cluster 2009.06 Documentation - Release Notes, Installation Guide, Sun Cluster 3.2 1/09

Video on OpenSolaris 2009.06 Open HA Cluster

OpenSolaris Availability Information

OpenSolaris 2009.06

Solaris Cluster 3.2

Project Colorado

Project Crossbow

Storage Targets & Drivers - Fibre Channel, iSCSI, COMSTAR

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