Solaris Operating System

High Availability Learning Center

Keep your business-critical applications and essential services up and running 24x7. Simplify administration. Be proactive and guard against unplanned disruptions. Build operational resiliency. With the Solaris 10 Operating System and Solaris Cluster software, you get best-in-class, high availability so you can increase uptime through routine maintenance, failures, wide area outages or even disasters.

Videos and Demos

Solaris Cluster and Oracle
Discussion on Solaris Cluster and support for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Sun Cluster 3.2 Hot Topic Video

Sun Java Availability Suite Demo

Watch Keith White, Director of Engineering talk about Sun Cluster features and benefits

Predictive Self Healing Demo

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How-To Guides

How To Configure LDOM Guest Domains As Solaris Cluster Nodes
Helps a new or experienced Solaris user quickly and easily install and configure Solaris Cluster software for two nodes that are LDom guest domains.

How to Install and Configure a Two-node Cluster
This Sun Cluster Two-Node Installation and Configuration is intended to assist a new or experienced user to quickly and easily install and configure Sun Cluster software. This guide covers installation and configuration of Sun Cluster software for two nodes, including configuration of a quorum device.

Upgrading and Patching with Live Upgrade
Demonstrates the use of this tool for managing change, risk, and system availability on Solaris systems.

White Papers & Blueprints

IDC White Paper: Addressing Virtualization and High Availability Needs with Solaris Cluster

Sun Cluster 3.2 Software: Making Oracle Database 10G R2 and 11G RAC Even More "Unbreakable" White Paper

Using Solaris Cluster and Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Blueprint

Linking Disaster Recovery Time Objectives to Business and Compliance Requirements
This white paper provides guidelines for basing recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives on real-world business processes.

Disaster Recovery with Solaris Cluster

Availability Blueprint

White Paper: Provisioning and Change Management Tools