Announcements

Continentalclusters is a Hewlett-Packard high availability solution that provides disaster tolerant clustering over long distances. Version A.04.01 of Continentalclusters, which contains enhancements and defect fixes, is being released with the following product numbers:

Version A.04.01 of Continentalclusters requires the HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11) or HP-UX 11i v2 operating systems. Continentalclusters version A.04.00 or later will not automatically include the separately purchased products Metrocluster XP/CA and Metrocluster EMC/SRDF.

Since Continentalclusters configurations may be complex to configure and maintain, it is strongly recommended that you use Hewlett-Packard’s high availability consulting services to ensure a smooth installation and rollout. Please contact your HP representative to inquire about high availability consulting. In addition, you should work with your HP representative to ensure that you have the latest firmware revisions for disk drives, disk controllers, LAN controllers, and other hardware.

Starting with version A.04.00, Continentalclusters recovery supports Oracle 9i RAC instances. Table 1-1 “Metrocluster Version Requirements for Continentalclusters Oracle RAC Support” shows the Oracle RAC support compatibility for Continentalclusters version A.04.01.