What's New in the Software

This section provides information related to new features, functionality, and products in the Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition (Geographic Edition) 4.1 software.

The Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 software provides the following new features:

• Support for Oracle Solaris 11.2 OS

• New clsetup Wizards to Create a Zone Cluster

• Support for solaris10 Brand Zone Clusters

• Support for Exclusive-IP Zone Clusters

• Support for Trusted Extensions With Zone Clusters

• Resource Dependencies Can Be Defined on a Per-Node Basis

• Support for Kernel Cage Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR)

• Cluster Security Framework Is Enhanced

• Support for Socket Direct Protocol Over the Cluster Interconnect

• Faster Failure Detection and Response by Storage Monitors

• ZFS Storage Pools

• New clsetup Wizard to Configure the Oracle PeopleSoft Application Server Data Service

• New clsetup Wizard to Configure the Oracle WebLogic Server Data Service

• Support for MySQL and MySQL Cluster Data Services

• New Data Service for PostgreSQL

• New Data Service for Samba

• New Data Service for SAP liveCache

• New Data Service for SAP MaxDB

• New Data Service for Siebel 8.2.2

• New Data Service for Sybase ASE

• New Data Service for Oracle Traffic Director

• New Data Service for Oracle TimesTen

• New Manual for SAP NetWeaver Data Service

• New Data Service for Oracle External Proxy

• New Data Service for Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Process Scheduler

• New Data Service for Oracle Web Tier

• Support for Oracle E-Business 12.1.1 Data Service

• Support for Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Data Replication With Geographic Edition

• Support for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility With Geographic Edition

• Support for MySQL Replication With Geographic Edition

• New Man Pages for the ccradm and dcs_config Advanced Maintenance Commands

• Selected Support for Non-Global Zones

Support for Oracle Solaris 11.2 OS

Support is added for Oracle Solaris 11.2 software. The cluster must run or be upgraded to a minimum of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2 SRU 8.

New clsetup Wizards to Create a Zone Cluster

The clsetup utility now enables you to create a zone cluster and configure network addresses, storage devices, a file system, or a ZFS storage pool. For details, see Creating and Configuring a Zone Cluster in Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Installation Guide.

Support for solaris10 Brand Zone Clusters

Support is added for solaris10 brand zone clusters. At initial release of this feature, the following Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 data services are supported in solaris10 brand zone clusters on an Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 configuration:

• Oracle RAC for the following releases:

  • 11g release 2, on SPARC (without UDLM) or on x86

  • 10g release 2, on x86 only

• HA for Oracle PeopleSoft, on SPARC only

• HA for Oracle WebLogic Server, on SPARC or x86

Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition software is not initially supported in solaris10 brand zone clusters.

To learn whether additional Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 data services or the Geographic Edition feature become qualified in an Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 solaris10 brand zone cluster, consult the Oracle Solaris Cluster 4 Compatibility Guide.

For instructions to create a solaris10 brand zone cluster, see How to Create a Zone Cluster in Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Installation Guide.

Support for Exclusive-IP Zone Clusters

Exclusive-IP zone clusters work with solaris and solaris10 brand zones. For installation instructions of solaris brand exclusive-IP zone clusters, see How to Create a Zone Cluster in Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Installation Guide. For solaris10 brand exclusive-IP zone clusters, see the readme file of the SRU3.

Support for Trusted Extensions With Zone Clusters

You can now configure the Trusted Extensions feature of Oracle Solaris software for use with Zone Cluster. For details, see How to Create a Zone Cluster in Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Installation Guide.

Resource Dependencies Can Be Defined on a Per-Node Basis

You can now specify per-node resource dependencies, which might differ for each per-node instance of a resource. Per-node instances are instances of the resource that are online simultaneously (in a multi-mastered resource group) or disjointedly in time (in a failover resource group) on different nodes. For details, see How to Change Resource Dependency Properties in Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Services Planning and Administration Guide.

Support for Kernel Cage Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR)

Kernel cage memory DR (the removal of system boards containing system memory) is now supported. Support is currently limited to Oracle's SPARC Enterprise M8000 and M9000 series servers. For details, see Kernel Cage DR Recovery in Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 Hardware Administration Manual.

Cluster Security Framework Is Enhanced

New facilities were added to assist in running application programs as nonroot users, securely storing and retrieving private strings such as passwords, and performing additional runtime checking of ownership and permissions for Resource Group Manager (RGM) resource type callback methods. For details, see Chapter 13, Security for Data Services, in Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Services Developer’s Guide.

Support for Socket Direct Protocol Over the Cluster Interconnect

Socket Direct Protocol is now supported over the Oracle Solaris Cluster interconnect. For details, see Requirements for Socket Direct Protocol Over an Oracle Solaris Cluster Interconnect in Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 Hardware Administration Manual.

Faster Failure Detection and Response by Storage Monitors

The following enhancements provide quicker detection and response to storage failures:

• A new extension property, RebootOnFailure, is added to the SUNW.HAStoragePlus, SUNW.ScalDeviceGroup, and SUNW.ScalMountPoint resource types. This property specifies whether to reboot the local system when a resource of these types detects a failure on the local node and the same resource might be able to come online on some other primary or potential primary node.

• A new extension property, IOTimeout, is added to the SUNW.ScalDeviceGroup resource type. This property defines the length of time at which an I/O probe is considered to have failed, similar to the IOTimeout property currently available in the SUNW.ScalMountPoint and SUNW.HAStoragePlus resource types.

• The Ping_timeout property for disk path monitoring accepts higher and lower timeout values.

See the following man pages for details:

• scdpmd.conf(4)

• SUNW.HAStoragePlus(5)

• SUNW.ScalDeviceGroup(5)

• SUNW.ScalMountPoint(5)

ZFS Storage Pools

Support is added for ZFS storage pools on replicated storage that is managed by Oracle Solaris Cluster software. The following data-replication software is supported for this feature:

• EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF)

• Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

New clsetup Wizard to Configure the Oracle PeopleSoft Application Server Data Service

The clsetup utility now enables you to configure the HA for Oracle PeopleSoft Application Server data services. For details, see Chapter 2, Installing and Configuring the HA for PeopleSoft Application Server, in Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Guide.

New clsetup Wizard to Configure the Oracle WebLogic Server Data Service

The clsetup utility now enables you to configure the HA for Oracle WebLogic Server data service. For details, see Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Solaris Cluster HA for WebLogic Server, in Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle WebLogic Server Guide.

Support for MySQL and MySQL Cluster Data Services

Data services for MySQL and MySQL Cluster are now supported. For details, see the following:

• Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for MySQL Guide

• Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for MySQL Cluster Guide

New Data Service for PostgreSQL

A new data service for PostgreSQL software is now available with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 SRU3. For details, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for PostgreSQL Guide.

New Data Service for Samba

A new data service for Samba 3.6.6 and 3.6.12 software is now available with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 SRU3. For details, see Deployment Example: Configuring HA Samba on Oracle Solaris 11.1 (Article 1509776) posted on My Oracle Support at http://support.oracle.com. You must have an Oracle support contract to access the site.

New Data Service for SAP liveCache

A new data service for SAP liveCache software is now available with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 SRU3. For details, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for SAP liveCache Guide.

New Data Service for SAP MaxDB

A new data service for SAP MaxDB software is now available with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 SRU3. For details, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for SAP MaxDB Guide.

New Data Service for Siebel 8.2.2

A new data service for Siebel 8.2.2 software is now available with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 SRU3. For details, see Configuring the Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Siebel (Article 1509776) posted on My Oracle Support at http://support.oracle.com. You must have an Oracle support contract to access the site.

New Data Service for Sybase ASE

A new data service for Sybase ASE 15.7 is now available with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 SRU3. For details, see the Deployment Example: Configuring the Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15.7 Agent (Article 1509776) posted on My Oracle Support at http://support.oracle.com. You must have an Oracle support contract to access the site.

New Data Service for Oracle Traffic Director

A new data service for Oracle Traffic Director software is now available with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 SRU3. For details, see the ORCL.otd(5) man page located in Appendix A of the Release Notes. See also Article 1509776 posted on My Oracle Support at http://support.oracle.com. You must have an Oracle support contract to access the site.

Support is currently limited to engineered systems. For more information, see Oracle Solaris Cluster 4 Compatibility Guide.

New Data Service for Oracle TimesTen

A new data service for Oracle TimesTen 11.2.2 software is now available with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 SRU3. For details, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle TimesTen Guide.

New Manual for SAP NetWeaver Data Service

A new manual for the SAP NetWeaver 7.3 data service is now available with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 SRU3. For details, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for SAP NetWeaver Guide.

New Data Service for Oracle External Proxy

A new data service for Oracle External Proxy software is now available. For details, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle External Proxy Guide.

New Data Service for Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Process Scheduler

A new data service for the Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Process Scheduler is now available for certain batch processing and workload balancing. For details, see Chapter 3, Installing and Configuring the HA for PeopleSoft Process Scheduler, in Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Guide.

New Data Service for Oracle Web Tier

A new data service for Oracle Web Tier software is now available. For details, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle Web Tier Guide.

Support for Oracle E-Business 12.1.1 Data Service

The data service for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1 is now supported. For details, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle E-Business Suite Guide.

Support for Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Data Replication With Geographic Edition

Support is added to use Sun ZFS Storage Appliance data replication in an Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition configuration. For more information, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition Remote Replication Guide for Sun ZFS Storage Appliance.

Support for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility With Geographic Edition

EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) data replication for Geographic Edition software is now supported. For details, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility.

Support for MySQL Replication With Geographic Edition

MySQL data replication for Geographic Edition software is now supported. For details, see Appendix F, Deployment Example: Replicating Data With MySQL, in Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide.

New Man Pages for the ccradm and dcs_config Advanced Maintenance Commands

The following man pages for advanced cluster administration tools are added in this release:

• ccradm(1M) – This man page describes the ccradm tool, which is an advanced maintenance command for administering the Cluster Configuration Repository (CCR).

• dcs_config(1M) – This man page describes the dcs_config tool, which is an advanced maintenance command for administering the Device Configuration System (DCS). This command was previously only available as part of a diagnostic toolkit but is now added to Oracle Solaris Cluster software in the 4.1 release.

Selected Support for Non-Global Zones

The Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 release runs only in a global zone and in a zone cluster. A zone cluster is now configured with the solaris brand non-global zone, which is comparable to the native brand zone in Oracle Solaris 10.

The solaris and solaris10 brands of non-global zones are supported for configuration with the HA for Oracle Solaris Zones data service.

In this release, the global-cluster nonvoting node model, to configure non-global zones in a resource-group node list, is not supported.