Sun Cluster 2.x

The Sun Cluster 2.0 product was released in October 1997. This release began to merge the features offered by SPARCcluster PDB 1.2 and Solstice HA 1.3 software. This effort took 18 months, culminating in the Sun Cluster 2.2 release.

The initial Sun Cluster 2.0 release supported the following features:

  • Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) only

  • Veritas File System (VxFS) was required to provide file system logging because Solstice DiskSuite was not supported

  • Solaris 2.5.1 support, with Solaris 2.6 support following in December of that year

  • Support for Ultra Enterprise 1, 2, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, and 10000 and SPARCcenter 1000E and 2000E

  • Up to four nodes in an N+1 storage topology

  • Agent support for Oracle 8i OPS parallel RDBM, Informix XPS, ...

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