[rhelv6-list] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Beta is now available
Engineering Partner Management
eng-partner-management at redhat.com
Tue Dec 4 20:06:50 UTC 2012
Today, Red Hat announced the beta availability of the next minor
release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4.
This release includes a broad set of updates to the existing feature
set and provides rich new functionality in the areas of identity
management, file system, virtualization, management, storage and
productivity tools.
We continue to work with our customers and partners as well as the open
source community to deliver technology that is tested and stable - even
during the beta phase of development. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 has
been designed for optimized performance, stability and flexibility to
cater to today's diverse workloads running in physical, virtual and
cloud environments.
Key new features and enhancements include:
Identity Management
* System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) enhancements extend the
interoperability experience with Microsoft Active Directory by
providing centralized identity access control for Linux/Unix clients
in a heterogeneous environment.
File System
* pNFS (Parallel NFS) client (file layout only) remains in technology
preview, however, now delivers performance improvements with the
addition of Direct I/O for faster data access. This drives
particular performance benefits for I/O intensive use cases such as
database workloads.
Virtualization
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 now includes the Microsoft Hyper-V Linux
drivers, which were recently accepted by the upstream Linux
community, improving the overall performance of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6 as a guest on Microsoft Hyper-V.
* Installation support for the VMware and Hyper-V para-virtualization
drivers enabling easy deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a
guest in these environments.
* KVM virtualization virtio-scsi support, a new industry storage
architecture, provides industry leading storage stack scalability.
Management
* Ability to use swap over NFS allows large disk-less server farms to
function without locally backed storage. This is beneficial to
hosting providers who want to manage their storage environments
centrally.
* Enhancement in c-groups (control groups) delivers the ability to
migrate multi-threaded applications without errors.
* Optimized performance monitoring tool, perf tool, for the latest
Intel processors.
Storage
* New system log features identify the mapping from logical block
device name to physical device identifier – allowing an
administrator to easily identify specific physical devices as needed.
Productivity Tools
* Microsoft interoperability improvements with Microsoft Exchange in
Evolution. Productivity functions, such as calendar support with
alarm notification and meeting scheduling is improved.
* Customers such as animation studios and graphic design houses now
have support for the newer Wacom tablets.
We greatly appreciate the dedication and collaboration within the
company and with our community to develop and deliver the highest
quality open source enterprise platform available today.
Sincerely,
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team
To read the Red Hat news blog, please visit:
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2012/12/latest-beta-available-of-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-now-available
To access and download an evaluation copy for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6.4, please visit:
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channels/Beta.do
Please note that this requires an active account on the Red Hat
customer portal, and the user must filter and navigate to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 and the architecture of interest (e.g., x86_64,
Power, System Z, etc.).
For access to the documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
including the release notes, please visit:
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team
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