SC 3.1 - Solaris 10  - sunfire v490 - array 3510 - oracle9

Hello,
we've been proposed (for very critical applications)
sun cluster 3.1 with oracle 9 over solaris 10
Is solaris 10 mature enough for mission critical configurations
or would you suggest staying on Solaris 9?
Has anyone experience with this configuration over heavely used databases?
Many thanks
G.

Well this comes to the question, what do you consider "mature"?
Just some facts:
- Solaris 10 did GA arround march 2005
- Solaris 10 support for SC 3.1 did appear with version 08/05 (arround august 2005)
This leaves us with ~2 years lifetime of S10 and ~1 1/2 year with the combination of S10 and SC 3.1.
I would call that mature :-)
If the question is, do customers use that combination in production a lot, then the answer is clearly yes.
Especially in the context of Sun Cluster Sun spends a lot effort in order to test configurations and making sure it works stable. On that topic you may want to have a look at a recnt SC blog: http://blogs.sun.com/SC/entry/building_quality_into_solaris_cluster
Of course looking at the pure products is just one part. The other question is what level of expierience do the admins in question have with those products. S10 introduced quite some differences in regard to how to interact with the system.
But since I do not know anything about your specific situation I can only give a general advice, and that would be yes, its mature enough :)
One other thing to take into account is the lifetime of a product. You will not have a problem with Solaris 9 yet, but you might want to check how long Oracle 9 will be supported by Oracle.
Greets
Thorsten

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