RHEL pushes new versions to greatly improve the performance of virtualized clusters

Article title: RHEL's new version significantly improves the performance of virtualized clusters. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

Red Hat, a well-known open-source software company, recently released the latest RHEL 5.2beta version. compared with the old version, this version mainly upgrades desktop and virtualization.

If your current business is deployed on the red hat operating system, you need to familiarize yourself with this new beta version, because in the next few months, the Red Hat product will be completely upgraded to this point. According to the Red Hat announcement, the latest version of RHEL will adopt the 2.6.18-84. el5 Linux kernel.

The beta version of linux runs through the entire RHEL product line, including AMD, Intel64, Itanium, S/390, System p, and System z. At the same time, the RHEL 5 Desktop version will also be updated.

This version upgrade focuses on virtualization. RHEL will upgrade the virtualization program Xen to 3.1.2. at the same time, the NUMA interface function will be greatly improved. In addition, the new version of the operating system will support 64 CPUs and up to GB of memory.

The enhancement of the virtualization application function will subsequently be the improvement of the RHEL product's cluster function. The most important thing is that the application programs in cluster products support better, and the set of virtualization and cluster function optimization will make the server more stable.

The new open-source version of RHEL will provide better IPV6 support, including DHCPv6 clients and servers. these improvements will make RHEL servers more convenient for IPv6 deployment.

The biggest change was from the Red Hat Desktop Edition Linux operating system. Originally, the desktop edition linux traditional Chinese medicine protected some Microsoft's patented media formats, but it seems that it is no longer a play, therefore, the new Red Hat Desktop linux version has the largest change, including Evolution2.12.3, Firefox 3, OpenOffice 2.3.0, and Thunderbird 2. 0. in addition, the new version of desktop Linux provides better support for desktop sleep and locking, and upgrades related graphics drivers.

In general, RHEL of each version has been improved. for details, see the release statement of Red Hat beta.