What is Solaris Cluster?

Why Clustering?

Keep business services running 24/7 through planned and unplanned maintenance,

disasters and outages

Solaris Cluster Overview

• Industrial-strength High Availability software platform for mission-critical business services • Integrates largest portfolio of industry-leading

commercial and open-source applications• Open and flexible configurations• Business continuity across campuses, across

metropolitan areas and across the world

Failures happen

Failure points

Solaris Cluster HA platform• Tolerates any failure > By exploiting hardware

redundancy and software algorithms

• Monitors health of the cluster> Servers, storage & network> Applications

• Recovers cluster infrastructure and applications

Why Solaris Cluster?

• Out-of-the box support for over 50 leading applications including Oracle RAC, SAP, Apache and many others• One-click capability to add support for custom

applications• Support for Solaris on SPARC and x64 platforms

Availability Everywhere

• Network Availability• Data Availability• Application Availability

Simple Cluster

Application Management ● Start● Stop ● Monitor● Restart ● Fail-over

Disk Fencing

HeartbeatQuorum Voting

2 node cluster

Network Availability

Global Network Service● Global IP address ● IP address fail-over● Load-Balancing

IPMPGlobal InterfaceLocal Interface

Data Availability

Global File Service

Failover File Service

Global Devices

Application Availability

Failover Service● Application failover● Global Interface failover● Failover file service

Scalable Service● Application failover● Load Balancing● Global Interface

Resource Group Manager● Resource dependencies● Inter RG dependencies

Application AvailabilityIntegration With Solaris Containers

● Manage & Failover Containers● Manage & Failover Applications

within Containers

Container Container

Open and Flexible Configurations

• It's all about choice> Systems> Storage> Network> Data Management and replication software

Deployment options

Storage● Sun Storage● 3rd party EMC, HP, NEC, NetApp and more ...

Scaling● Vertical : 1-106 processors● Horizontal: 1-16 nodes

Network Options

Public Network ● Fast Ethernet● Gigabit Ethernet ● ATM ● IPMP● Sun Trunking● Jumbo Frames● VLAN

Private Interconnect● 2-6 independent

interconnects● Fast Ethernet● Gigabit Ethernet● Infiniband● PCI-SCI

Protocol ● IPV4● IPV6

Data Management Options

File System● UNIX® file system (UFS)● Sun StorEdge™ QFS shared file system** ● Veritas File System**

Replication and Mirroring● Sun StorEdge™ Traffic Manager ● Sun StorEdge™ Availability

Suite** ● Sun StorEdge 99x0 TrueCopy**

● Sun StorEdge 9900 ShadowImage**

● EMC SRDF**

Volume Manager● Solaris™ Volume Manager ● Veritas Volume Manager**

** For SPARC systems only

Campus/Metro ClusteringBusiness Continuity Solution

Up to 400KM

One-Click Takeover

Multi-Cluster / Multi-Site Support

Single Console Management

Solaris Cluster Geographic EditionDisaster Recovery over Unlimited Distance

Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition

N+1 Multi-site Support Paris Berlin

Geneva

RomeOne way Data Replication

One site backs up multiple cities

Multi-Cluster and Multi-Site capability

Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition

Active – Active Configuration

New York LondonBi-directional Data Replication

Each site backs up the other

Multi-Cluster and Multi-Site capability

Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition Disaster Recovery

Primary Site Backup Site

Unlimited Distance Separation

Admin. Client

Optional Heartbeat Network

Optional Storage Network

Solaris Cluster Geographic EditionOne-Click Takeover

Global Resource Manager

Managed SwitchoverManaged Takeover

Primary Site Backup Site

Admin. Client

Solaris Cluster Manager

Global Heartbeat Monitoring

Notifications

Custom Heartbeat

Configurable Timeout Period

Solaris Cluster Geographic EditionWeb-based Single Console

Why Solaris Cluster for Oracle RAC?

• Allows consolidation of Oracle RAC and other applications into a single High Availability framework

• Faster failover and recovery with Solaris Cluster heartbeats in kernel

• Eliminates single point of failure for Voting and OCR disks with redundancy

• Solaris Cluster leverages Oracle RAC advanced capabilities > CRS integration > ASM support

• Shared file system storage for Oracle binaries for better manageability

CRS and CacheFusion traffic• I/O Fencing and quorum prevents

data corruption

• All interconnect links are used with automatic failover built-in> Upto 6 links supported

• CacheFusion traffic is striped over private interconnects resulting in higher throughput and lower latency for clients

Highlights

RAC AgentRAC

SC

Solaris

Solaris Cluster Oracle RAC Agent

AdvancedEdition

RAC

QFS

SC-SVM

SC

Solaris

Solaris Cluster Advanced Edition for Oracle RAC

HA Oracle AgentOracle DB

SC

Solaris

Solaris Cluster HA Oracle Agent

RAC Agent

Oracle Solutions

• Proven and mature Solaris Cluster monitoring and failover• A high performance filesystem to improve

manageability• Robust Solaris Volume Manager for data mirroring and

availability• Supports up to 8-node Oracle RAC configurations for

SPARC and x64 platforms

Summary

Solaris Cluster Highlights

• Industrial-strength High Availability software platform for mission-critical business services • Over 50 industry-leading commercial and open-

source applications • Support for 16-node clusters running Solaris 10 on

AMD and SPARC platforms• Availability Everywhere: Across campuses, across

metropolitan areas and across the world

Where to go next?

• Get Solaris Cluster > sun.com/solaris/get

• Get Started > sun.com/cluster

• Get Trained> sun.com/training/catalog/server/cluster.xml