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

• 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

Data Replication

The following data replication products are supported in this release:

• Availability Suite feature of Oracle Solaris – When used with Geographic Edition software, support requires a minimum of Oracle Solaris 11 software repository update (SRU) 1.

• Oracle Data Guard – Support is limited to configurations that use Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 software.

• Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition script-based plug-ins.

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

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:

• Apache

• Apache Tomcat

• DHCP

• DNS

• NFS

• Oracle GlassFish Server Message Queue

• Oracle Database single-instance on version 11.2.0.3 only

• Oracle Real Application Clusters on version 11.2.0.3 only

• Oracle Solaris Zones

• Oracle VM Server for SPARC

• Oracle WebTier

• WebLogic Server

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.

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:

• Minimum of 1.5 Gbytes of physical RAM (2 Gbytes typical)

• Minimum of 6 Gbytes of available hard drive space

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.