Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials (Solaris System Administration)

Thousands of IT organizations have adopted clustering to improve the availability of mission-critical software services. Today, with the rapid growth of cloud computing environments, clustering is even more crucial.

 

Oracle^® Solaris Cluster Essentials is a comprehensive, authoritative guide to the industry’s most stable, robust clustering platform: Oracle Solaris Cluster. This book covers both Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.2 and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition in thorough detail, offering start-to-finish lifecycle guidance for planning, implementation, management, and troubleshooting.

 

Written by Oracle Solaris Cluster expert Tim Read, this book covers both high availability and disaster recovery features, and offers in-depth guidance for both Oracle and non-Oracle database environments. It also presents several example implementations that can be used to quickly construct effective proofs-of-concept.

 

Whether you’re new to clustering or upgrading from older solutions, this book brings together all the information you’ll need to maximize the value, reliability, and performance of any Oracle Solaris Cluster environment. You’ll learn how to

 

• Understand Oracle Solaris Cluster’s product features and architecture, and their implications for design and performance
• Establish requirements and design clustered systems that meet them
• Master best practices for integrating clustering with virtualization technologies
• Implement proven disaster recovery planning techniques
• Efficiently maintain Oracle Solaris Cluster environments

 

Part of the Oracle Solaris System Administration Series, Oracle^® Solaris Cluster Essentials combines a complete technology introduction and hands-on guide for every architect, administrator, and IT manager responsible for high availability and business continuity.

Intended for computer network architects and IT managers this volume provides an overview of the features, implementation and management of Oracle's Solaris Cluster system redundancy software. Oracle Solaris Cluster coordinates distributed services and backup server functionality that keep web enterprises always available. Step- by-step instructions, screen-shots and code examples illustrate common procedures and a listing of supplemental resources as well as an online edition of the book are provided. Read is a software developer at Oracle and is the author of several white papers for Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Tim Read joined Sun in 1990 as a systems engineer, was responsible for the U.K.’s first Sun Cluster HA 1.0 deployments, and now works as a staff engineer for Oracle’s Solaris Cluster Engineering group. He has written and co-authored a number of Sun BluePrints and white papers, including “Designing Enterprise Solutions with Sun Cluster 3.0,” “Architecting Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions,” and “Sun Cluster 3.2 Software.” He holds a joint honors B.Sc. in physics with astrophysics from Birmingham University.

 

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

 

Chapter 1: Oracle Solaris Cluster: Overview

Chapter 2: Oracle Solaris Cluster: Features and Architecture

Chapter 3: Combining Virtualization Technologies With the Oracle Solaris Cluster Software

Chapter 4: Managing Your Oracle Solaris Cluster Environment

Chapter 5: Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition: Overview

Chapter 6: Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition: Features and Architecture

Chapter 7: Managing Your Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition Systems

Chapter 8: Example Oracle Solaris Cluster Implementations

Chapter 9: Example Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition Implementations

 

References

 

Index