Sun Microsystems and VERITAS Software Corporation have announced clustering support for the Sun StorEdge T3 array.
Sun's highly scalable storage system for mission-critical enterprise environments, is now certified by both companies to support Cluster Server running on the Solaris operating environment.
VERITAS Cluster Server is scalable software designed to proactively manage the availability of enterprise services in clustered environments.
"Last year VERITAS Software and Sun committed to setting new standards in enterprise reliability," says Nick van Noordwyk, regional director, Middle East and Africa at VERITAS Software.
"We have made significant progress in our commitment to an expanded relationship and our mutual customers appreciate the benefits of this synergy as their businesses demand increasingly higher levels of reliability," he adds.
The exceptionally strong relationship makes it possible to collaboratively develop solutions for complex technical problems shared by their mutual customers. Fulfilling the companies' promise of an expanded strategic alliance, which combines joint development, testing and seamless customer support, the two companies worked closely to certify Cluster Server installations running on StorEdgeT3 arrays.
"Sun customers in SA can now reap the benefits of the Sun StorEdge T3 array on all of their organisation's platforms, including Solaris," says Stefano Mattiello, Managing Director of Sun Microsystems SA.
StorEdge T3 array customers can now use Cluster Server to create highly available server clusters by connecting two or more servers to a common storage resource. If a failure occurs on one or more servers, the solution automatically migrates applications to another server in the cluster with no administrator intervention.
The array can strengthen cluster performance through its high-availability capabilities, including redundant and hot-swappable components that scale to increase reliability as the storage network grows.
"This development expands Sun's potential, making centralised management and scalability affordable for a much broader range of users," continues Mattiello.
It provides added high-availability features to guard against service interruption. In the event of a component failure, the array's hot-swappable redundant RAID controllers, host connectors, power and cooling units, interconnect cards and drives work to continue operations.
As capacity increases, the array's availability scales with the additional data paths and redundancy features, so customers can be assured that they will not jeopardise data availability as their data storage requirements grow.
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