1. What is
Solaris Cluster?

2. Why Clustering?
Keep business services running 24/7 through
planned and unplanned maintenance,
disasters and outages

3. 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

4. Failures happen
Failure points

5. 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

6. 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

7. Availability Everywhere
• Network Availability
• Data Availability
• Application Availability

8. Simple Cluster
Application Management
● Start
2 node cluster ● Stop
● Monitor
● Restart
● Fail-over
Disk Fencing
Heartbeat
Quorum Voting

9. Network Availability
Global Interface IPMP
Local Interface
Global Network Service
● Global IP address
● IP address fail-over
● Load-Balancing

10. Data Availability
Global
Devices
Global File
Service
Failover File Service

11. Application Availability
Failover Service
● Application failover
● Global Interface failover
● Failover file service
Resource Group Manager
Scalable Service ● Resource dependencies
● Application failover ● Inter RG dependencies
● Load Balancing
● Global Interface

12. Application Availability
Integration With Solaris Containers
Container Container
● Manage & Failover Containers
● Manage & Failover Applications
within Containers

13. Open and Flexible Configurations
• It's all about choice
> Systems
> Storage
> Network
> Data Management and replication software

14. Deployment options
Scaling
● Vertical : 1-106 processors
● Horizontal: 1-16 nodes
Storage
● Sun Storage
● 3rd party EMC, HP, NEC,
NetApp and more ...

15. Network Options
Protocol
● IPV4
● IPV6
Public Network Private Interconnect
● Fast Ethernet ● 2-6 independent
● Gigabit Ethernet
interconnects
● ATM ● Fast Ethernet
● IPMP ● Gigabit Ethernet
● Sun Trunking ● Infiniband
● Jumbo Frames ● PCI-SCI
● VLAN

16. Data Management Options
Replication and Mirroring
● Sun StorEdge™ Traffic Manager
● Sun StorEdge™ Availability
Suite**
● Sun StorEdge 99x0 TrueCopy**
● Sun StorEdge 9900
ShadowImage**
● EMC SRDF**
File System
● UNIX® file system (UFS)
● Sun StorEdge™ QFS shared file system**
Volume Manager ● Veritas File System**
● Solaris™ Volume Manager
● Veritas Volume Manager**
** For SPARC systems only

17. Campus/Metro Clustering
Business Continuity Solution
Up to 400KM

18. Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition
Disaster Recovery over Unlimited Distance
One-Click Takeover
Multi-Cluster / Multi-Site Support
Single Console Management

19. Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition
Multi-Cluster and Multi-Site
capability
N+1 Multi-site Support Paris Berlin
One site backs up multiple Geneva
cities
One way Data
Replication
Rome

20. Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition
Multi-Cluster and Multi-Site
capability
Active – Active Configuration
Each site backs up the
other New
Bi-directional Data Replication York London

21. Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition
Disaster
Recovery Admin. Client
Primary Site Backup Site
Optional Heartbeat Network
Optional Storage Network
Unlimited Distance Separation

22. Solaris Cluster Geographic
Edition Admin. Client
One-Click Site
Primary
Takeover Backup Site
Managed Switchover
Managed Takeover
Global Resource Manager

23. Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition
Web-based Single Console
Solaris Cluster Manager
Global Heartbeat Monitoring
Notifications
Custom Heartbeat
Configurable Timeout Period

24. 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

25. Highlights
• I/O Fencing and quorum prevents
CRS and CacheFusion traffic
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

26. Oracle Solutions
Solaris Cluster HA Oracle HA Oracle
Agent Oracle DB
Agent
SC
Solaris
Solaris Cluster Oracle RAC
Agent RAC RAC Agent
SC
Solaris
Solaris Cluster Advanced Edition for
Oracle RAC RAC RAC Agent
QFS
Advanced
SC-SVM
Edition
SC
Solaris

27. Summary
• 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

28. 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

29. 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