| High Availability |
| Kernel Integration | - Provides faster and more reliable application recovery and reduced downtime
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| Disk Fencing | - Helps ensure data integrity
- Enables easier disk fencing set up through automatic discovery of appropriate fencing protocol
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| Quorum | - Helps prevent data corruption
- Provides flexible quorum implementations with multiple options including disk- and software-based quorum, as well as quorum server
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| Component Monitoring | - Prevents outages through early detection of failures
- Increases service availability through early detection of issues such as component outages and operator errors, and easier error diagnostics during application bring-up phase
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| Integration with Oracle Solaris Service Management Facility Services | - Provides easy migration from single-node Oracle Solaris environments to a multi-node Oracle Solaris Cluster environment, increasing availability with little or no development effort
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| Configuration Checker | - Provides increased availability through early detection of vulnerable cluster configurations
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| Virtualization |
| Oracle Solaris Zones Clusters | - Provides Oracle Solaris 10 and Oracle Solaris 11 zone cluster support on Oracle Solaris 11
- Provides full-service protection through fine-grained monitoring of applications, policy-based restart, and failover within a virtual cluster
- Enables reliable operations of multi-tiered workloads through management of dependencies inside and across zones clusters
- Extends ease of use and administrative isolation through delegated administration to virtual cluster
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| Oracle Solaris Failover Zones | - Provides increased availability of zone deployments
- Enables a higher service level through load balancing and priority management
- Facilitates migration of Oracle Solaris 10 native zones to Oracle Solaris 11
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| Oracle VM Server for SPARC Support | - Leverages Live Migration for minimal outage during planned maintenance
- Provides protection from failure for Oracle VM Server for SPARC domains, either at the application level or at the virtual guest level
- Enables reliable operations through management of resource dependencies and cluster load-balancing
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| Disaster Recovery |
| Campus Cluster and Geographic Cluster | - Protects applications from outages that occur within a data center room, a building, a local area, or a disaster in a large area
- Minimizes human error in recovery actions, lowering the recovery time and increasing overall availability of the protected services through automated failover of applications and management of data replication
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| Pre-Tested, Supported Components |
| Large Choice of Pre-tested Networking Technologies, Data Management Technologies, Servers, and Storage Solutions | - Provides a reliable, supported, and highly available environment
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| Ease of Operations |
| Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center | - Enables easy provisioning and management of cluster deployments with automated cluster topology discovery and full orchestration of cluster-wide patching and configuration updating
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| Object-oriented Command Line Interface | - Easy to use and easy to learn
- Provides command logging for security tracking and replay
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| Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) 10g, 11g Integration and Administration | - Enables faster set up of Oracle RAC and ASM with automatic installation and wizard-led configuration
- Provides faster failure detection and simplified administration
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| Applications Support |
| Out-of-the-box Support for a Large Number of Oracle and non-Oracle Applications and Databases | - Provides faster, secure deployment and increased application availability
- Simplifies service deployments
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| Security |
| Oracle Solaris Trusted Extensions | - Provides multi-level security in clustering environment
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