Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Brings Enhanced Security, Management, and Monitoring to the World’s Leading Enterprise Linux Platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 adds improved system archiving, new
visibility into storage performance and an updated open standard for
secure virtual private networks
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 6.8, the latest version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 delivers new capabilities and
provides a stable and trusted platform for critical IT infrastructure.
With nearly six years of field-proven success, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 has set the stage for the innovations of today, as Red Hat Enterprise
Linux continues to power not only existing workloads, but also the
technologies of the future, from cloud-native applications to Linux
containers.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 includes a number of new and updated
features to help organizations bolster platform security and enhance
systems management/monitoring capabilities, including:
Enhanced Security, Authentication, and Interoperability
To enhance security for virtual private networks (VPNs), Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.8 includes libreswan, an implementation of one
of the most widely supported and standardized VPN protocols, which
replaces openswan as the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 VPN endpoint
solution, giving Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 customers access to recent
advances in VPN security.
Customers running the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 can
see increased client-side performance and simpler management through the
addition of new capabilities to the Identity Management client code
(SSSD). Cached authentication lookup on the client reduces the
unnecessary exchange of user credentials with Active Directory servers.
Support for adcli simplifies the management of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6 systems interoperating with an Active Directory domain. In
addition, SSSD now supports user authentication via smart cards,
for both system login and related functions such as sudo.
Enhanced Management and Monitoring
The inclusion of Relax-and-Recover, a system archiving tool,
provides a more streamlined system administration experience, enabling
systems administrators to create local backups in an ISO format that can
be centrally archived and replicated remotely for simplified disaster
recovery operations. An enhanced yum tool simplifies the
addition of packages, adding intelligence to the process of locating
required packages to add/enable new platform features.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 provides increased visibility into storage
usage and performance through dmstats, a program that displays
and manages I/O statistics for user-defined regions of devices using the
device-mapper driver.
Additional Enhancements and Updates
For customers with ever-increasing volumes of data, the Scalable File
System Add-on for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 now supports xfs
filesystem sizes up to 300TB.
Additionally, the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8
includes the launch ofan updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8
base image which enables customers to migrate their traditional
workloads into container-based applications – suitable for deployment on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.
Today’s release also marks the transition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
into Production Phase 2, a phase which prioritizes ongoing stability and
security features for critical platform deployments. More information on
the Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle can be found at https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata.
Supporting Quote
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms Business
Unit, Red Hat
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 continues to
demonstrate Red Hat’s commitment to our customers’ many mission-critical
deployments by delivering a proven foundation for the applications and
systems that power the modern enterprise. With enhancements to security
features and management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 remains a solid,
proven base for modern enterprise IT operations.”
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