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Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta Now
Available - Testers Wanted
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:30:52 -0500
From: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list
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Today marks an exciting milestone for Red Hat as we share news of the
beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Since its introduction
more than a decade ago[1], Red Hat Enterprise Linux[2] has become the
world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, and it has helped set
industry standards for performance[3], capacity[4], capability[5] and
security[6]. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a leading force in enterprise
datacenters; it spans nearly every industry and has advanced to deliver
the original cloud operating system[7], powering many of the world’s
largest clouds.
With today’s announcement, we are inviting Red Hat customers, partners,
and members of the public to provide feedback on what we believe is our
most ambitious release to date. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is designed
to provide the underpinning for future application architectures while
delivering the flexibility, scalability, and performance needed to
deploy across bare metal, virtual machines, and cloud infrastructure.
We believe that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 represents the future of IT.
As hypervisors and cloud deployments become increasingly common and face
integration with physical servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 continues
Red Hat's track record of cultivating a foundation upon which to build
next-generation IT infrastructure. No other Linux operating system
combines the flexibility and stability needed to handle critical
workloads across all environments with as extensive an ecosystem of
solutions and support.
Based on Fedora 19 and the upstream Linux 3.10 kernel, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 will provide users with powerful new capabilities
that streamline and automate installation and deployment, simplify
management, and enhance ease-of-use, all while delivering the stability
that enterprises have come to expect from Red Hat. This further
solidifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s place as the world’s leading Linux
platform and a standard for the enterprise of the future. Whether
rolling out new applications, virtualizing environments or scaling the
business with cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 delivers the keystone to
IT success.
The beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 adds value to new and
existing IT projects across industries by adding key capabilities to
improve critical but often cumbersome IT tasks like virtualization and
storage while offering a clear pathway to the open hybrid cloud[8]. Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta showcases hundreds of new features and
enhancements, including:
Linux Containers - With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, applications
can be created and deployed in isolated environments using Linux
Container technology, such as Docker. System resources can be
partitioned to each application container, providing each application
with the appropriate resources and security isolation that they require
- a key capability for enterprises seeking more agility and scalability
within their infrastructure.
Performance Management - More than just benchmark results, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 helps customers optimize system performance
out-of-the-box while helping reduce performance-related IT costs. In
addition, users have the option to select the appropriate performance
profile for their application that helps them to achieve optimal
application results.
Physical and Hosted In-place Upgrades - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
will offer an in-place upgrade feature for common server deployment
types, allowing data centers to migrate existing Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.5 systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Additionally, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 enables virtual machine migration from a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 host to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 host without
virtual machine modification or downtime.
File Systems - File systems within Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
continue to be a major focus of development and innovation, with
enhancements to the ext4 and btrfs file systems. Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 will include XFS as the default file system, scaled to support
file systems up to 500 TB. The ext4 file system adds scalability
enhancements to increase the maximum standalone file system size from 16
TB to 50 TB, and gains support for block sizes of up to 1MB,
considerably decreasing the time spent doing block allocation and
reducing fragmentation. Btrfs, an emerging file system, will be
available as a technology preview within Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and
includes integrated basic volume management, snapshot support, and
checksum capability to validate full data and metadata integrity.
Networking - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 enhances networking
configuration and operation and adds support for some of the latest
networking standards. Performance improvements are delivered for network
intensive applications with the availability of 40Gb Ethernet support,
improved channel bonding, TCP performance improvements and low latency
socket poll support.
Storage - Storage receives significant updates within Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 with support of very large scale storage
configurations, including support for enterprise storage arrays. For
more price-sensitive deployments, enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux’s scalable storage stack provide an alternative to expensive
storage arrays. New capabilities in storage management simplify the
management of heterogeneous storage environments.
Windows Interoperability - For datacenters where co-existence of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows ServerTM is a
requirement, interoperability capabilities have been expanded within Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Specifically, IT professionals can bridge
Windows and Linux infrastructure by integrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 systems and SAMBA 4.1 with existing Microsoft Active Directory
domains. Additionally, staff can choose to deploy Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Identity Management in a parallel trust zone with Active
Directory, allowing customers to leverage the investments they have
already made.
Subsystem Management - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 simplifies
configuration and administration with uniform management tools for
networking, storage, file systems, performance, identities and security.
It does this by delivering a Linux management framework that also
interfaces to popular system management frameworks via OpenLMI. Through
OpenLMI, system administrators can use scripting and APIs to automate
management across multiple systems.
Today’s beta announcement marks the beginning of our public journey to
introduce our vision for the future of enterprise computing. We’re
excited to be starting this public journey, and look forward to sharing
our vision starting with these key highlights of new and enhanced
capabilities and continuing on our new Red Hat Enterprise Linux-focused
blog, located at http://rhelblog.redhat.com/.
AVAILABILITY
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 beta is available to Red Hat customers,
partners, and members of the public. If you are interested in trying the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta, we encourage you to download and
install it, and tell us[9] what interests you the most about the Beta.
You may download the beta from the "Get Beta" link provided below.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Please visit the below resources for more information about Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 Beta.
Access the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta today:
https://access.redhat.com/site/products/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/Get-Beta
Access documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta (requires
login):
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta release notes:
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/7.0_Release_Notes/index.html
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta technical notes:
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/7.0_Technical_Notes/index.html
Red Hat Enterprise Linux documentation:
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/
Follow updates about the Beta via the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog:
http://rhelblog.redhat.com
Sincerely,
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team
[1] - http://www.redhat.com/10yearsofrhel
[2] - http://rhel.redhat.com
[3] - http://rhel.redhat.com/performance
[4] - http://rhel.redhat.com/capacity
[5] - http://rhel.redhat.com/capability
[6] -
http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industry/government/certifications.html
[7] -
http://rhel.redhat.com/sites/default/files/RHEL_Org_Cloud_OS_WP_10935437_0413_jw_WEB_0.pdf
[8] - http://www.redhat.com/solutions/open-hybrid-cloud/
[9] -
https://www.techvalidate.com/registration/Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-7-Beta
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