A gentle reminder for tomorrow's session.

-Shiv

On Nov 19, 2007 8:26 PM, S h i v shivakumar.gn@gmail.com wrote:

Hello All,

Next BOSUG(Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group) session will be an "Introductory session on the Open HA Cluster". Open HA Cluster becoming available provides for some *very* interesting possibilities. This session should help us get going. Please see details below.

Open HA Cluster:

Open HA Cluster is the open source version of the from Sun Microsystem's Solaris Cluster software which is the best High Availability Solution for Solaris platform by virtue of the tight integration with Solaris Kernel. It is also the only free and open clustering solution from a leading vendor.

The product is being open sourced in 3 phases and quarterly updates are released to coincide with SXDE releases.

[1] the code that makes the applications highly available called Agents was open sourced in 7/07 under the aegis of Open HA Cluster community along with the cluster software built for Nevada.

[2] The next phase will be the open sourcing of the Disaster recovery software called Geographic cluster and is tentatively scheduled for Dec'07 release.

[3] The core components of the cluster software will be open sourced in 2008. These are available as free download right now.

Why should you attend?

• Do you want to setup a High Availability cluster on your

laptop/Desktop? (yes on a laptop!)

• Do you want to become a core contributor and leader in a community

that provides high availability and DR solution for OpenSolaris technologies like xVM, ZFS etc?

• Need an excellent opportunity to learn fault recovery mechanisms in

depth and contribute to new technologies at the same time ?

If the answer to any of the above is "yes" you should consider attending.

• Discover many such interesting possibilities on attending the session!

Who can attend:

User level familiarity with posix environment (Solaris, Linux,FreeBSD,...) is assumed. Knowledge of some application like Apache, MySQL will be a plus though not mandatory.

About the speaker:

Madhan Kumar B works in the Solaris Cluster Engineering team specializing in Data Services layer of Solaris Cluster and a regular contributor to the Open HA Cluster community. He represents the Solaris Cluster team in various industry and academic conventions including Sun Tech Days. His primary interests are system management tools and High Availability.

He graduated from the University of Madras and worked for Oracle Corp in the Enterprise Manager and Networking tools team before joining Sun in 2005. He is also an avid blogger (http://blogs.sun.com/Maddy) and a good table tennis player!

Date : 24-November, 2007 Saturday Time : 6pm to 8pm Venue: Himalaya Conference Room. Sun Microsystems, Divyashree Chambers Off Langford Road, (Near Richmond Circle) Bangalore - 25 (Routemap is attached)

All those interested are welcome. Please confirm your attendance by replying to me on or before 23-Nov. Feel free to circulate it to interested friends and colleagues.

regards Shiv