[rhelv6-list] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Beta Now Available for Testing
Engineering Partner Management
eng-partner-management at redhat.com
Tue Aug 12 17:44:14 UTC 2014
We are pleased to announce the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6.6, the latest version of our Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform. Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Beta includes enhancements to both security and
stability as well as:
* Increased system performance
* An improved system administration experience
* Enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a virtual guest
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 offers a stable, proven, and predictable
platform, balancing the enterprise need to maintain a reliable and
secure platform for mission critical workloads with the flexibility to
adapt to changing business needs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Beta
continues to answer this need, providing enhanced functionality that
allows organizations to easily build and manage large, complex IT
infrastructure for deployment across physical, virtual, and cloud
environments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Beta delivers a variety of improvements
that provide increased system performance across physical, virtual, and
cloud environments. These optimizations and tuning improvements include:
* Out-of-the-box support for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over
Converged Ethernet (RoCE) to deliver low-latency, high bandwidth network
connectivity
* A new socket polling implementation that reduces network latency and
jitter
* Kernel locking improvements to allow for increased CPU utilization
on large systems
* Support for additional 40GbE network adapters
Organizations that build large, complex environments will benefit from
enhancements that provide a better system administration experience.
These include:
* Full support for load balancer technology like HAproxy and keepalived
* Improved manageability of resource lists in large, high availability
configurations
* The addition of Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), a framework and set of
services supporting system level performance monitoring and management
in distributed environments
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Beta also provides enhancements to running
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a virtual guest, upholding Red Hat’s
commitment to refining the overall virtualization experience.
Virtualization updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Beta include
support for a host to feed randomness to a virtual machine, increasing
security for cryptographic applications, multi-queue performance
improvements for guest network and storage throughput when running Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Beta on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 host, and
more.
For access to the documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Beta,
including the release notes, please visit:
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/
RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 6.6 BETA AVAILABILITY
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Beta is now available in the Red Hat
Customer Portal to all customers with an active Red Hat Enterprise Linux
subscription. To access and download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 beta,
please visit: https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channels/Beta.do
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
To access documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, visit:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/
Sincerely,
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team
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