New Release Upgrade Process

Software products evolve over time, with new and enhanced features becoming available with each version release. Similar to the patch evaluation process, your process should be to review and evaluate new software product releases to determine the business impact.

Additionally, as with patches, systems with higher availability requirements can benefit from applying new software releases to a development system to help analyze their benefits and to plan the production rollout strategy.

Data centers with higher availability requirements can also benefit by applying patches to a test system to analyze their full impact and to assist in the rollout strategy. Sun Cluster 3.0 offers a limited capability to apply patches to an operational cluster without bringing down the cluster. Contact your local Sun service provider for details.