Sun Fire(TM) V210 and V240 Servers are now supported in the 
SunPlex(TM) environment. 

NEW FEATURES
 
Sun Fire(TM) V210 and V240 Servers are now supported with Sun Cluster 
3.0 and Sun Cluster 3.1. 

INTENDED AUDIENCE(S)

SunPlex systems are ideally suited for any enterprise where the 
availability and scalability of application services and information 
is critical. In today's global business environment, this is every 
enterprise. 

The best candidates for SunPlex systems are customers who: 

- run applications that must be up and available at all times and to 
whom the unavailability of applications or critical data is costly in 
terms of lost revenue, productivity, and competitiveness. 
- run OLTP, e-commerce, Web services, or DSS-type applications. 
- run database and other business-critical applications in a 
single-node environment (manufacturing, finance, and so on) and are 
concerned about server, database, and application availability. 
- run RDBMS on a single node and are running out of capacity, but want 
to leverage their existing investments toward a more powerful, 
scalable solution. 
- do not currently use parallel databases, but have expressed interest 
in such products. 
- are running competing clustering solutions and want to switch to Sun 
servers and clusters. 
- want to integrate multiple platforms in a single cluster for 
resource sharing and ease of management. 
- want to run horizontally scaled applications (for example, Web or 
proxy servers), and want the benefits of scalable services. 
- face service/cluster management issues and desire a simpler way to 
manage and deploy infrastructure. 

MARKET VALUE PROPOSITION
 
The SunPlex system market value proposition is: 

* Increased service levels 
* Decreased service level costs 
* Lowered risk to customer 

SunPlex systems deliver Service Point Architecture capabilities using 
tightly coupled pools of resources, making it possible to manage the 
service, and not the server. The SunPlex system, enabled by Sun 
Cluster 3.1, is a Service Level Management Platform. SunPlex 
systems deliver higher availability by pooling resources, which 
enables easier management. 

Service level is what users demand on the client side. This is 
where quality of service (QoS) is measured, but obviously it is 
dependent upon an infrastructure that delivers these services behind 
the scenes. Service level allows users to access the service 
(accessibility, availability, resiliency), which then responds in a 
timely manner (response, capacity), consistent with the user 
expectation. More specifically: 

* Accessibility: The ability for users to access the desired services, 
be recognized as authorized users, and have access to only what they 
are entitled. 
* Availability: The measure of how often the service is available or 
accessible when desired. This is often expressed as a percentage of 
the time a service is available or accessible when desired. 
* Resiliency: The ability to continue delivering service or 
functionality in the face of failures and without recovery. For 
example, if a component is replicated four times and load is shared 
across all of the instances, then the service delivered by that 
component is resilient. A single failure can reduce capacity by 25 
percent, but the service is still available even if 25 percent of 
connections or sessions are lost. They can still reconnect at will. 
* Response: The quality of response is both the length of time it 
takes to get a response when a user submits a request, and also 
whether that response is exactly as desired. For example, with 
streaming video this would mean that the video starts immediately 
after the user submits the request and that when the video streams, it 
is smooth, runs at the right speed, and no frames are lost. 
* Capacity: The ability for the service platform to provide all of the 
resources - network, compute, and storage - needed to deliver the 
desired service. 

Service level costs consist of the following: 
* Ownership = cost of the IT resources - ongoing management, 
spares, power, and so on 
* Provisioning = cost of getting more IT resources 
* Implementation = cost to put IT resources into service 
* Management = cost to manage and maintain IT resources and services 

Sun Cluster 3.1 provides a highly available and highly scalable 
framework that allows multiple Solaris Operating Environment images 
to interoperate in a tightly coupled, and easy-to-manage fashion, 
enabling customers to achieve higher service levels at lower cost and 
minimized risk. 

PRODUCT DETAILS
 
-KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS: 

 -FEATURE:  Support of Sun Fire V210 with Sun Cluster 3.0 and Sun Cluster 3.1. 

 -FUNCTION: Allows the Sun Fire V210 to be configured in a SunPlex 
            system. 

 -BENEFIT:  Sun Fire V210 server can be used in a SunPlex environment 
            to manage the service levels of application services. 

 -FEATURE:  Support of Sun Fire V240 with Sun Cluster 3.0 and Sun Cluster 3.1 

 -FUNCTION: Allows the Sun Fire V240 to be configured in a SunPlex system. 

 -BENEFIT:  Sun Fire V240 server can be used in a SunPlex environment to manage
	    the service levels of the application services.


-SUPPORTED PLATFORMS: 

Sun Fire V210 or V240 servers 

-SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS: 

Solaris 8 Operating Environment 

-LICENSING REQUIREMENTS: 

SunPlex environment uses the following licensing scheme: 

- One server license per clustered system*. 
- One agent license per agent in the cluster. 
- One Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) cluster functionality license per 
Oracle Parallel Server node, if VxVM cluster functionality is being 
used for shared volumes. 

*Note: Only one license is needed for a system even if the system has 
multiple domains, with some or all domains participating in same or 
different clusters. 

-COMPATIBLE THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS: 

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 
Oracle 
Sybase ASE 
SAP 
Apache Web/Proxy Server 
BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise 
Veritas NetBackup 
IBM WebSphere MQ and MQ Integrator 

-WARRANTY LENGTH: 

90 day warranty. 

Global Software Warranty Support is applicable as outlined at : 
http://www.sun.com/service/support/warranty/ 


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 
Q.   What configurations are supported for Sun Fire V210 and 
     Sun Cluster 3.x (both 3.0 and 3.1)? 

A.   The Sun Fire V210 is supported with Sun Cluster 3.x in 
     configurations with other supported Sun servers (ranging from a Sun 
     Fire V120 to a Sun Fire 15K) and storage (such as StorEdge T3 and the 
     StorEdge 9900 series). For a full support listing, please contact your 
     Sun Sales representative. 

Q.   What configurations are supported for Sun Fire V240 and Sun Cluster 
     3.x (both 3.0 and 3.1)? 

A.   The Sun Fire V240 is supported with Sun Cluster 3.x in configurations 
     with other supported Sun servers (ranging from a Sun Fire V120 to a 
     Sun Fire 15K) and storage (such as StorEdge T3 and the StorEdge 9900 
     series). For a full support listing, please contact your 
     Sun Sales representative.