We had a wonderful Open HA Cluster Summit at the Marriott Hotel yesterday 31st May, 2009.  Dr. David Cheriton gave a very interesting keynote address. We had about 170 registrants though I believe there were about 135 participants at the keynote address. Irene Israel, Jatin Jhala and others did an amazing job of putting this conference together. It was heartening to see interested engineers show up and attend the session on a Sunday! It was nice to meet members of our very active community Marcelo Leal and Piotr Jasiukajtis.

Today we announced the release of High Availability Cluster software for OpenSolaris 2009.06!  Open HA Cluster 2009.06 is based on Solaris Cluster 3.2. It makes OpenSolaris an enterprise-ready mission-critical deployment platform and is a preview for the Cluster release on Solaris.Next release. You can read more details about the product here. A video with host Amour Kwok, Dan Roberts and me is available here.

The Cluster team has worked very hard in the last two months to make this release a reality! While any release requires careful planning and execution, this first release of Open HA Cluster 2009.06 needed something special besides meticulous orchestration! It was a very interesting release for me and the team! Kudos to everybody on the Cluster team for pulling this off and making the schedule!  A very special thanks to Nick Solter, Thorsten Frueauf, Nancy Chow, Roger Autrand and Eve Kleinknecht.

I consider myself very priviledged to work with such a dedicated, committed and brilliant set of people. It is an amazing group of diverse personalities that work so well together because of their love for this technology!