Latest release of the established Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform
delivers enhancements to system performance, system administration, and
virtualization
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.6, the latest version of the company's Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 platform. Nearly four years since the launch of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in 2010, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 provides a
stable and secure foundation that enables organizations to tailor their
infrastructure for the business needs of today while remaining flexible
enough to prepare for the challenges of tomorrow. This flexibility
enables enterprises to confidently build, deploy and manage large,
complex IT projects across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
The new features and capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 are
centered on three critical areas for enterprise IT:
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Performance
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System Administration
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Virtualization
From the kernel to the network stack, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 has
been tuned to optimize performance. With support for higher processor
counts and memory limits as well as kernel optimizations that allow for
more efficient CPU utilization on large NUMA systems, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.6 better accommodates dense single-server workloads. Other
system performance enhancements include support for additional 40 GbE
network adapters, reductions in network latency and jitter, and support
for high performance, low latency applications.
Improving upon an already powerful feature set for simplifying
deployment processes and system configuration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6.6 offers new capabilities to build and manage large, complex IT
environments. In large high availability configurations, full support
for HAProxy and keepalived load balancer technologies improves
stability, while the improved manageability of resource lists simplifies
administration. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 also includes new Security
Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) functionality for compliance testing
and Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) for better monitoring and management in
distributed environments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 improves its functionality as a virtual
guest by including several enhancements to improve the overall virtual
guest experience. Support for a host to feed randomness to a virtual
machine increases security for cryptographic applications while
multi-queue performance improvements boost guest network and storage
throughput when running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 on a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 host.
Available now, the full list of capabilities and features within Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.6 can be viewed at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platform Business
Unit, Red Hat
"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 to mission-critical systems across industries and
regions. Whether you're operating on bare metal, building out your
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."
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