Announcements

Continentalclusters is a Hewlett-Packard high availability solution that provides disaster tolerant clustering with no distance limitation. Version A.05.01 of Continentalclusters, which contains enhancements and defect fixes, is being released on HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2 update 2 with the following product number:

Version A.05.01 of Continentalclusters requires the HP-UX 11i v1 or HP-UX 11i v2 update 2 operating systems. Continentalclusters version A.04.00 or later will not automatically include the following separately purchased products: Metrocluster CA XP, Metrocluster CA EVA, and Metrocluster with EMC SRDF.

Since Continentalclusters configurations may be complex to configure and maintain, it is highly recommended that you use Hewlett-Packard’s high availability consulting services to ensure a smooth installation and rollout. Contact your HP representative to inquire about high availability consulting. In addition, 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 requirements for Continentalclusters version A.05.01.