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Preface

Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 Release Notes

What's New in the Software

Automated Installer Support

New Cluster Package Names

Default Root File System of Oracle Solaris ZFS

Selected Support for Non-Global Zones

HA for Oracle with Oracle Data Guard Replication

What's Not Included in the Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 Software

Restrictions

Solaris Volume Manager Disk Sets in a Zone Cluster

Commands Modified in This Release

Compatibility Issues

Oracle Clusterware Fails to Create All SIDs for ora.asm Resource (12680224)

IP Addresses on a Failed IP Interface Can No Longer Be Used Locally (7099852)

Zone Does Not Boot if pkg:/system/resource-mgmt/resource-cap Is Not Installed and capped-memory Is Configured (7087700)

DID Disk Add to Solaris Zone Is Not Accepting Wild Card for *dsk (7081090)

Accessibility Information

Supported Products

Data Replication

Data Service

File Systems

Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition Software Requirements

Memory Requirements

Oracle Solaris Operating System

Oracle VM Server for SPARC

Volume Management Software

Product Localization

Known Issues and Bugs

Administration

x86: clzonecluster export Command Fails (7066586)

Using chmod to setuid Returns Error in Non-Global Zone on PxFS Secondary Server (7020380)

Cannot Create a Resource From a Configuration File With Non-Tunable Extension Properties (6971632)

Cluster.CCR: libpnm system error: Failed to resolve pnm proxy pnm_server.2.zonename (6942090)

Missing /dev/rmt Causes Incorrect Reservation Usage When Policy Is pathcount (6920996)

Disabling Device Fencing While Cluster Is Under Load Results in Reservation Conflict (6908466)

Removing Nodes From the Cluster Configuration Can Result in Node Panics (6735924)

Data Services

Share Mount Point Matching Is Incorrect for Combination of UFS and ZFS Starting With a Common Pattern (7093237)

'Unable to Determine Oracle CRS Version' Error After Applying Patch 145333-09 (7090390)

SPARC: HA for Oracle VM Server for SPARC Default STOP_TIMEOUT is Too Low - Need Better Monitoring Of Domain Migration Progress (7069269)

Scalable Applications Are Not Isolated Between Zone Clusters (6911363)

Running clnas add or clnas remove Command on Multiple Nodes at the Same Time Could Cause Problem (6791618)

Installation

cluster check Fails for cacaoadm With Insufficient Data Before Node Is Configured in Cluster (7104375)

Some Cluster Services Might Be Missing After Configuring Cluster on a Boot Environment That Previously Had the Cluster Software Installed (7103721)

scinstall Tries to Create an IPMP Group on a Standby Interface (7095759)

The Command clnode remove -F nodename Fails to Remove the Node nodename From Solaris Volume Manager Device Groups (6471834)

Autodiscovery Should Find Only One Interconnect Path for Each Adapter (6299097)

Runtime

Failure of Logical Hostname to Fail Over Caused by getnetmaskbyaddr() (7075347)

ssm_start Fails Due to Unrelated IPMP Down (6938555)

Software Updates

Patch Management Tools

My Oracle Support

Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 Documentation Set

Documentation Issues

HA for Zones Procedure Moved to the Data Service Manual

Solaris Volume Manager

Man Pages

Section 3HA Man Pages

clconfiguration(5)

clnasdevice(1CL)

clnode(1CL)

clquorum(1CL)

cluster(1CL)

clzonecluster(1CL)

-c config_profile.xml Option

Correction to Default Set of Packages That Are Installed by the Automated Installer

Missing Description of the export Subcommand

r_properties(5)

scinstall(1M)

rt_properties(5)

SUNW.gds(5)

SUNW.oracle_server(5)

A.  ORCL.ohs(5) and ORCL.opmn(5) Man Pages

Supported Products

This section describes the software and memory requirements for Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 4.0 software.

Data Replication

The following data replication products are supported in this release:

The following table describes the volume managers that are supported in this release for each data replication software product.

Data Replication Software
Supported Volume Managers
Oracle Data Guard1
Oracle Automatic Storage Management

Oracle Solaris ZFS Volume Manager

Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster

Availability Suite feature of Oracle Solaris
Solaris Volume Manager

1For information about additional supported storage management options, see Storage Management Requirements in Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle Real Application Clusters Guide.

Data Service

Data services for the following applications are supported with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0:

The Grid Engine and Sun Java System Application Server EE (formerly called HADB) Data Services are no longer supported.

File Systems

The following table describes the file systems that work with the Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 software on SPARC and x86 platforms.

File System
Additional Information
Oracle Solaris UFS
Oracle Solaris ZFS
Network File System (NFS)
Oracle Solaris Cluster proxy file system (PxFS)
UFS and raw disk are the only possible cluster file systems

Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition Software Requirements

The Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition (Geographic Edition) 4.0 software runs on only Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 software.

A Geographic Edition configuration can consist of one cluster running Geographic Edition 4.0 software and the other cluster running Geographic Edition 3.3 5/11 software.

Memory Requirements

The Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 software requires the following memory requirements for every cluster node:

Actual physical memory and hard drive requirements are determined by the applications that are installed. Consult the application's documentation or contact the application vendor to calculate additional memory and hard drive requirements.

Oracle Solaris Operating System

The Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0, Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 4.0, and Quorum Server software require the Oracle Solaris 11 OS.

Oracle VM Server for SPARC

This Oracle Solaris Cluster release works with Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.1 This software was formerly called Sun Logical Domains (LDoms).

Volume Management Software

The following table describes the volume managers that work with Oracle Solaris 11 on the SPARC and x86 platforms. Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) is not supported for the Oracle Solaris Cluster and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 4.0 software.

Volume Manager
Cluster Feature
Solaris Volume Manager
Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster
Oracle Solaris ZFS Volume Manager