Sun Cluster 3.0 introduced

Santa Clara 05 December 2000 Sun Microsystems introduced Sun Cluster 3.0, a clustering platforms for the service-driven network. Through automatic fault detection, recovery and redundancy, Sun Cluster 3.0, with the ability to cluster up to 8 nodes and scale up to 512 processors, ensures that mission-critical applications and services remain continuously available.

Sun Cluster 3.0 represents a new approach to clustering from Sun. With 40 new patents issued or pending, it offers new approaches to managing application services and makes the complexity of clustering easier. Among the innovations within Sun Cluster 3.0 are the following:

  • The first clustered file service for file systems that conform to Unix standards to provide "always on" data availability
  • Cluster-wide networking service that enables an "always on" cluster-wide network connection
  • The only clustering software specifically designed to support horizontal and vertical scaling
  • Simple mechanism to rapidly deploy and manage changes to application services and resources
  • Scalable services that allow an application to be installed once and run everywhere on the cluster
  • Support for application service failover and scalable service recovery
  • Rapid failure detection to shorten recovery time
  • Highly accurate failure detection to avoid unnecessary failover
  • A cluster-wide device system that simplifies addition of storage peripherals to the cluster
  • A suite of popular cluster agents from Sun
  • Tools to easily define new cluster agents
  • Cluster-wide administration to simplify administration
  • Powerful tools to simplify the installation and operation of the cluster

Leveraging the industry-leading Solaris Operating Environment, Sun Cluster provides enterprise-wide reliability, availability, and scalability for e-commerce, ERP, data warehousing, and other mission-critical applications and services.

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