Red Hat Satellite 6.2 Introduces New Features to Help Users Increase Efficiency Across On-Premise, Cloud, and Container-based Environments
New features add systems lifecycle management for disconnected
networks and streamline workflows through remote execution and flexible
provisioning
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 Satellite
6.2, its systems lifecycle management tool across physical, virtual, and
private and public cloud environments. Red Hat Satellite 6.2 introduces
remote execution and extends capabilities for container
management and security.
Red Hat Satellite 6.2 offers several new features, including:
- Container host provisioning, supporting and managing Red Hat’s
lightweight container operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Atomic Host. Red Hat Satellite supports enterprises who are migrating
to a lightweight container architecture, enabling them to run Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Atomic Hosts as a compute resource and directly
deploy containers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host. In
addition, Red Hat Satellite now supports the Open Container Initiative
format and registries.
- Remote execution, enabling users to take multiple actions
against a group of systems while automating workflows. With these newcapabilities, users can reboot a system after a patch install, or
conduct rolling upgrades across hundreds of systems with the same ease
and consistency as updating a single system. New scheduling features
and dashboards enhance interaction with systems under Red Hat
Satellite management, bringing increased efficiency to its
provisioning and discovery processes.
- Support for disconnected environments. Red Hat Satellite 6.2
provides the ability to synchronize and export content from one Red
Hat Satellite server to another, a new feature designed for workloads
that may require systems management solutions to run disconnected from
the Internet for security purposes.
- Expanded capsule management. The Red Hat Satellite Capsule
Server, which provides federated services especially helpful for
scaling,can now provide deeper insight into the health of the
capsule, including service run statues from the centralized Red Hat
Satellite console. This enables administrators to create various
capsules in different geographic locations where datacenters may be
located.
- More flexible provisioning via newdiscovery enhancements in
Red Hat Satellite, helping to simplify the process of building systems
and enable end users to more efficiently provision systems in secured
environments where DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) and PXE
(Preboot Execution Environment) may not be available.
- Enhanced migration services via theability to import
existing hosts running on any version of Red Hat Satellite 5 or 6
thanks to new feature scripts and automation capabilities. This
bootstrap script automates the process of registering systems to
Satellite, reducing the steps needed to add existing systems to Red
Hat Satellite.
Availability
Red Hat Satellite 6.2 is now generally available to all Red Hat
Satellite customers with a valid subscription.
Supporting Quote
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
“With ever-changing business needs and the speed at which technology is
shifting, organizations need to efficiently manage and more securely
operate both their traditional and cloud-based infrastructures. Red Hat
Satellite 6.2 helps meet these needs with increased scalability, support
for offline environments as well as enabling system administrators to
more easily manage physical, virtual, hybrid cloud and container
environments.”
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