Friday, June 10, 2011

Redhat Enterprise Linux Version 6 aka RHEL6 Features

 Recently I attended one presentation from Redhat people on RHEL6 features. Some of the mesmerizing features as below.
  • 85% more packages(Applications/softwares/tools) then RHEL5
  • RHEL6 supports up to 4096 CPU’s
  • RAM supported by RHEL6 is up to16TB.
  • File system up to 100TB with EXT4 file-system.
  • Very much optimized to support many hardware
  • Can control 90000 jobs/min(I believe it’s too good I’m loving it.)
  • SELinux sand-boxing for more SELinux control.
  • KVM for virtualization.
  • 7+3 years of extended support.
  • Lower Power consumption(20% less when compared to RHEL5) — A green initiate.
  • When handling Virtual machines(VM) RHEL6 on RHEL6 is good at performance when compared to RHEL5 vm on RHEL6 server
  • More Reliability, Availability, serviceability(RAS)
  • Rapid file system recovery(up to 10x faster than rhel5).
  • Resource management through Control group(CGroup) sand-boxing the process.