[rhelv6-list] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Now Available
Engineering Partner Management
eng-partner-management at redhat.com
Tue Oct 14 15:22:52 UTC 2014
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux team is pleased to announce the release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, the latest version of our Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 platform. With the release of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.6, we continue to refine the stable and secure Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 platform which provides a reliable foundation for
mission-critical systems across industries and regions.
Whether you’re operating on bare metal, building out a virtual
infrastructure, or leveraging the open hybrid cloud, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6, with enhancements to virtualization, performance and system
administration, continues to be an excellent choice for deploying and
managing large and complex IT projects.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 delivers a variety of improvements that
provide increased system performance across physical, virtual, and cloud
environments. These optimizations and tuning improvements include:
* Kernel locking improvements to allow for more efficient CPU
utilization on large NUMA systems
* Out-of-the-box support for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over
Converged Ethernet (RoCE) to deliver low-latency, high bandwidth network
connectivity; functionality that was previously delivered through the
High Performance Networking Add-on
* A new optional socket polling implementation (“busy-poll”) that
reduces network latency and jitter
* Support for additional 40GbE network adapters (i.e. Solarflare,
Intel, Emulex, Mellanox, and Chelsio)
Organizations that build large, complex environments will benefit from
enhancements that provide a better system administration experience.
These include:
* The addition of Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), a framework and set of
services supporting system-level performance monitoring and management
in distributed environments
* Improved manageability of resource lists in large, high
availability configurations
* Full support for load balancer technology like HAProxy and keepalived
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 also provides enhancements to running Red
Hat Enterprise Linux as a virtual guest, upholding Red Hat’s commitment
to refining the overall virtualization experience. Virtualization
updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 include support for a host to
feed randomness (entropy) 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 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 host, and more.
For access to the documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6,
including the release notes, please visit:
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/
RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 6.6 AVAILABILITY
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 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,
please visit: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/
Sincerely,
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team
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