Oracle Releases Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0

Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 (www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/cluster/overview/index.html) , the first release providing extended high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities for Oracle Solaris 11 (oracle.com/solaris) , the first cloud OS.

Oracle Solaris Cluster extends Oracle Solaris to provide HA and DR infrastructure required for deploying mission critical workloads in private, public and hybrid clouds as well as enterprise data centers. Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0:

Oracle Solaris Cluster provides the best availability solution for enterprise applications with:

Oracle Solaris Cluster is engineered to get the most out of Oracle hardware and software:

Pre-tested with Oracle Sun servers, storage and networking components (www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/index.html)

Integrated with Oracle SPARC SuperCluster (www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sparc-enterprise/supercluster/supercluster-t4-4/overview/index.html) T4-4

Configured in Oracle Optimized Solutions (www.oracle.com/us/solutions/optimized-solutions-171609.html) to provide higher availability to Oracle's portfolio of pre-tested enterprise infrastructure services.

Supports fail-over domains using Oracle VM Server (www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/oraclevm/index.html) for SPARC allowing dynamic compute resources to be adjusted for SPARC T-Series systems within a cluster.

Integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager for automated provisioning, discovery, configuration, and patching of physical and virtual clusters.

Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 includes built-in support for Oracle software such as Oracle Database 11g (www.oracle.com/us/products/database/index.html) (single instance and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) (www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/clustering/overview/index.html) ) and Oracle WebLogic Server (www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/weblogic/overview/index.html) as well as Oracle Solaris 11 services such as Apache, Apache Tomcat, DHCP, DNS and NFS.

“Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 delivers unrivaled high availability on Oracle Solaris 11 for enterprise applications and databases and offers comprehensive capabilities for keeping customers’ most demanding applications up and running in the face of nearly every conceivable situation,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle. “Customers can now combine the additional critical HA and DR features of Oracle Solaris Cluster with the new cloud-ready features of Oracle Solaris 11 to help simplify their infrastructure, significantly reduce planned and unplanned downtime and protect mission critical applications in both traditional and cloud deployments.”