This section highlights information for existing customers about new features in Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2 software.
The Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2 SRU 1 provides the following new features:
New Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager wizards - A new Tasks component with additional wizards is added to the Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager GUI. From the Tasks panel, you can run configuration wizards for the following components:
HA for Oracle Database data service
Logical hostname resources
Highly available storage resources (HAStoragePlus)
This functionality requires a minimum of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2 SRU 1.
For more information about how to set up and launch the GUI in a browser, see Chapter 13, Using the Oracle Solaris Cluster GUI, in Oracle Solaris Cluster System Administration Guide .
Geographic Edition management of Oracle Database running remotely in an Oracle Data Guard configuration - A configuration running the Geographic Edition framework can be used to manage Oracle Database in an Oracle Data Guard configuration that is running on a remote system that is not running Oracle Solaris Cluster software.
This functionality requires a minimum of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2 SRU 1.
For more information about how to set up and launch the GUI in a browser, see Chapter 1, Replicating Data With Oracle Data Guard Software, in Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Oracle Data Guard .
The Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2 software provides the following new features:
Disaster recovery orchestration – Disaster recovery (DR) orchestration provides the ability to manage multiple Geographic Edition protection groups as a single entity known as a multigroup. This entity enables an administrator to coordinate disaster recovery protection of multiple clusters and multiple services on a per-site basis.
At initial release, this feature has the following configuration limitations:
Maximum number of clusters in a site: 8
Maximum number of protection groups in a multigroup: 10
Maximum number of multigroups in a site: 10
Maximum number of sites in a cluster: 8
Maximum number of controllers in a site: 3
Contact your Oracle support representative to learn whether an increase of any of these limits has become qualified at a later date.
For more information, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide .
Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager Graphical User Interface (GUI) – The Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager GUI helps you check the status of cluster and Geographic Edition components and perform administrative tasks for data services, nodes, resource groups, resources, NAS devices, adapters, cables, quorum devices, partnerships, protection groups, and so on. You can use the GUI in place of many of the command-line interface (CLI) commands. The GUI is installed when you install the Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2 ha-cluster-full package.
For information about how to set up and launch the GUI in a browser, see Chapter 13, Using the Oracle Solaris Cluster GUI, in Oracle Solaris Cluster System Administration Guide .
Secure Automated Installation for Oracle Solaris Cluster – This feature provides secure automated installation for Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2 by authenticating and encrypting/decrypting the communication between the Automated Installer (AI) server and the cluster nodes, as well as the installation of the IPS packages to the cluster nodes from the HTTPS repository locations.
For more information, see Establishing a New Oracle Solaris Cluster With the Automated Installer in Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Installation Guide .
Oracle Solaris Unified Archive support in Oracle Solaris Cluster – This feature enables you to use the AI server to install cluster nodes from Oracle Solaris Unified Archives. The new capabilities include:
Installing and configuring the cluster with the new configuration
Restoring cluster nodes from the recovery archives that are created for the specific nodes
Replicating a new cluster from an existing cluster that has a similar hardware configuration
On cluster nodes that are already running, you can use the clzonecluster install command to install a new zone cluster and the clzonecluster configure command to configure a new zone cluster from Oracle Solaris Unified Archives.
For more information, see Establishing a New Oracle Solaris Cluster With the Automated Installer in Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Installation Guide .
Enhancements to the Oracle Solaris Cluster APIs to provide improved support for HA data services that perform live migration – The Resource Group Manager (RGM) supports a new resource property, Pre_evict, and a new scha_resourcegroup_get query tag, SCHA_TARGET_NODES, for the use of data services developers. These new API features allow a data service that performs a live migration kind of switchover from the Stop method to find out the target node of a switchover, and to trigger any required resource group evictions before the switchover is initiated.
An example of one such data service is HA for Oracle VM for SPARC. The TARGET_NODES query now allows live migration to be used in several other instances, such as scha_control giveovers, in which live migration was previously not possible. Pre-eviction enables Oracle Solaris Cluster to move excess workload off the target node before the switchover begins, which causes the live migration to succeed more often. The HA for Oracle VM for SPARC data service is enhanced to take advantage of these new API features.
For more information, see Supporting Resource Types That Perform Resource Migration From Their Stop Method in Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Services Developer’s Guide .
Enhancement to the Cluster Event SNMP Interface – This feature enhances the clsnmpmib utility by introducing a new severity, NOTICE. This new severity and other higher severity events now have a one-to-one correlation for the configuration and status change of cluster objects. With this feature, you can configure the minimum severity at which events will be logged in Management Information Base (MIB). You can also indicate the number of events to be logged in MIB.
For more information, see Creating, Setting Up, and Managing the Oracle Solaris Cluster SNMP Event MIB in Oracle Solaris Cluster System Administration Guide .
Support for Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones – In this release, the Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle Solaris Zones supports Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones (solaris-kz brand). The sczbt component now supports cold and warm migration for the kernel zones. The three data service components are implemented as their own dedicated resource types as follows:
sczbt – ORCL.ha-zone_sczbt
sczsh – ORCL.ha-zone_sczsh
sczsmf – ORCL.ha-zone_sczsmf
Resource configuration is still done by amending the component configuration file and providing it to the component register script.
For more information, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle Solaris Zones Guide .
Support for a new version of Generic Data Service (GDSv2) – GDSv2 includes new generic resource types and more functionality than the previous version of GDS.
For more information, see Chapter 2, Creating a Data Service with GDSv2, in Oracle Solaris Cluster Generic Data Service (GDS) Guide .
Support for Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Enterprise Server (SPARC Only) – This high availability data service for the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne application enables the Oracle Solaris Cluster product to start, stop, and monitor the Enterprise Server component of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne product. The new resource type interrogates the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Enterprise Server processes and interprets the availability of those processes as an Oracle Solaris Cluster resource state or status in an Oracle Solaris Cluster configuration.
For more information, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Enterprise Server Guide .
Support for Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Oracle GoldenGate – In this release, this high availability data service for Oracle GoldenGate supports the Oracle GoldenGate versions 11.2.1.x and 12.1.2.x.
For more information, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle GoldenGate Guide .
Support for Oracle 12c RAC Database Containers – The Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) data service now supports the database containers feature of Oracle RAC 12c.
For more information, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle External Proxy Guide .
Support for Oracle RAC Database Services Agent – This feature enables Oracle RAC database services to be represented by proxy resources in Oracle Solaris Cluster, thereby allowing application dependencies to be fine-tuned for better availability.
For more information, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle External Proxy Guide .
Support for policy-managed RAC databases – This feature allows the use of policy-managed RAC databases with the scalable RAC server proxy resource type.
For information about this database feature, see your Oracle Database documentation. For more information on configuring Oracle Solaris Cluster for this feature, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle Real Application Clusters Guide .