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SunOS/Solaris Clustering

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maxfli

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Does anyone know what version of SunOS or Solaris supported clustering? Would like to build a sun cluster but don’t know how far back I can go.

Thanks in advance
 
I don’t know to be honest. Like you have 2 systems and have them talking to each other duplicating storage like a database or shared storage.
 
Sun Cluster existed from release 2.0 through 3.1. Prior to that it was Solstice HA 1.x and with 3.2, it became Oracle Solaris Cluster. It didn't really find its sea legs until the 2.2 release.

For a brief moment, there was also Sun Cluster PDB specifically for parallel databases.

Sun Cluster 2.2 supported Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, and Solaris 8.

Like all things Sun Cluster, the nuts and bolts of what works with what gets really hairy.
 
Sun Cluster (up to 3.1, which is the last I was trained on, and outside of PDB) doesn't offer concurrent storage. It only offers standby/takeover.
 
Was the cluster software parts of the general OS install media or was it something that was purchased separately?
 
I may be able to help.

I have a new packaged Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05 that came with a "new old stock still on palett" V880 I purchased some years ago.
PM me.
 
Starcat said:
Sun Cluster existed from release 2.0 through 3.1. Prior to that it was Solstice HA 1.x and with 3.2, it became Oracle Solaris Cluster. It didn't really find its sea legs until the 2.2 release.

For a brief moment, there was also Sun Cluster PDB specifically for parallel databases.

Sun Cluster 2.2 supported Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, and Solaris 8.

Like all things Sun Cluster, the nuts and bolts of what works with what gets really hairy.
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It lasted well beyond that. 3.2 was the last release for the Solaris 10 OS, but Solaris 11 had Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.x, up to 4.4 as the last release. All the docs are still online at https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/cluster.html

2.2 -> 3.0 was the biggest change, when it moved from user space to the kernel, added global storage (concurrent access to a filesystem from all nodes) and other features. Later versions of 3.x and 4.x added a disaster recovery framework, to allow linking of two clusters with replicated storage, for geographically-separated resilience. In most cases there's a specific version of the cluster software for each SunOS/Solaris release, with limited interworking between versions to allow rolling upgrades to be done.
 
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