Red Hat 6.2 Enterprise Edition releases
It is the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, Red hat announced its release just few hours ago, December 6th, the immediate availability of the final and stable version of its operating system which is Enterprise edition. This version is targeted more to the commercial market, including mainframes, which they provide 7-year support on Red Hat. It also stated that it’s working on the next-gen enterprise platform for large enterprises and government agencies, which will be named as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Enhancements of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2:
· Virtualization enhancements
· Simplified management tools for storage resources
· Simplified management tools for clusters
· Simplified management tools for file systems
· Simplified management tools for virtualized resources
· Resource management capabilities for SLAs and user identity
· Better virtualized guests, storage, clusters, and networked file systems performance
· Improved scalability across virtualized resources and file systems
· Achieves critical security certifications needed by government agencies and large enterprises
· Networking optimizations to reduce context switching and data copies
· Virtualized guests diagnostic capabilities
· Accelerated I/O, like network traffic steering
· Lots of bug fixes and small improvements.
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 delivers significant improvements in virtualization, resource management and high availability, and offers new features in storage and file system performance and identity management.”
“The key benefits for organizations employing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 are higher levels of efficiency realized through resource management and performance optimization, along with enhanced business agility through additional security and flexibility for virtualized and clustered deployments.”
- was stated by Red Hat in the press release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Beta ISO images can be downloaded by all existing RHEL subscribers, through visiting the Red Hat Networks service.