With SSP 3.4, customers get improved system availability through the automatic SSP and control board failover features. With SSP 3.4, customers can also dispatch system processor boards between domains quicker because the speed of attach and detach system boards has been enhanced. In conjunction with the recently introduced Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration feature, resource management on Sun Enterprise 10000 becomes even more dynamic and speedier in meeting customers' resource management needs. Improved total system availability by being able to failover to the spare System Service Processor upon any failures on the main System Service Processor. Automatic recovery from failures with primary control board by failover to the spare control board when the highly recommended spare control board is available.
Customer can expect speedy results when moving processor boards between domains.
Enhanced speed with moving processor boards between domains. Extensive bug fixes to SSP are thoroughly tested and integrated into the SSP 3.4 base release. However Solaris 2.5.1 operating environment will not be supported. Customers will be encouraged to upgrade the SSP software to SSP 3.4 as soon as possible to benefit from many new added features and improved code quality. The exact timing is up to the customers since data center customers are very careful in making any software changes to their opertating environments.