ZFSSA software release 2011.1.1.0 is available, Steve Tunstall blogs. Users will need 2010.3.2.1 or greater to upgrade to 2011.1.1. This major software update contains numerous bug fixes and important firmware upgrades, Tunstall reports, then lists the various new features in the release, among which are:
With the release of the free, open source NetBeans IDE 7.1 there is now an IDE that supports JavaFX 2.0 and JDK 7, available for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, other Linux distributions, Mac and Windows. Support for Java EE includes cluster and instance deployment support for GlassFish Server; 50+ CDI support enhancements in the Java editor; and JSF component suite supporting improvements in Java Persistence, Web Services, EJB; and support for Oracle WebLogic Server 12c. NetBeans platform enhancements include Windows system APIs and support for multiple window layouts; enhanced TopComponentGroup behavior; visual window layout designer; and pluggable multiview components.
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Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0, the first release providing extended high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities for Oracle Solaris 11. Oracle Solaris Cluster works by extending Oracle Solaris to provide the HA and DR infrastructure required for deploying mission critical workloads in private, public and hybrid clouds as well as enterprise data centers. Among the other strong points of the solution are built-in support for cloud implementations and cloud-ready application protection through fine-grained monitoring and policy-based application management, along with restart and failover capabilities.
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Gary Combs and Eve Kleinknecht, both principal product managers at Oracle, presented at Oracle Open World on "Best Practices for Mission-Critical Computing on SPARC Servers." Now the 50-slide set from their presentation is available for download and viewing. The presentation concludes that the best High Availability solution for Oracle Solaris (itself the number one enterprise OS) is Oracle Solaris Cluster for its ability to deliver higher service levels for mission critical applications; its ability to provide protection for consolidated, virtualized workloads; and its ability to perform disaster recovery in an elastic, flexible environment.
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How to set up a one-click HA setting in PostgreSQL's vFabric Data Director is illustrated in Jignesh Shah's blogspot.com post. In some cases the PostgreSQL monitor can correctly diagnose the situation and restart the database. In others the virtual machine itself will need to be shut down, enabling the vCenter Server to start the database on another server. In this instance, DHCP addresses may well be affected, which Shah solves by relying on the virtual hosts format to allow users to find their intended database without regard for which server it is running on.
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