SPARCcluster PDB 1.x and SPARCcluster HA 1.x History

Before the release of Sun Cluster 2.0 in October 1997, Sun had two products that addressed different aspects of clustering— Sun SPARCcluster HA 1.x and Sun SPARCcluster PDB 1.x. The following sections outline the features, functions, and release histories of these two products.

SPARCcluster PDB 1.x

The Sun SPARCcluster PDB 1.0 system was announced in November 1994. This announcement marked Sun's initial entry into the clustering arena. However, first customer shipment was not until March 1995. Supported hardware configurations were very restrictive. This server supported only two-node configurations consisting of either SPARCserver™ 1000E or SPARCcenter™ 2000E systems running the Solaris 2.4 ...

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