Red Hat has beta released Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 on May 5th,
2015, an update for the firm’s Enterprise Linux 6 operating system that
provides monitoring capabilities for customers, security enhancements, and
updated systems management. The new beta release is available on the Red Hat
Network to all customers with an active Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription.
The release will also provide updates to the RHEL 6 platform that was first
released in 2010.
Although Red Hat has already
launched RHEL 7, the company continues providing support for corporate
users of older platforms under their 10-year life cycle policy. Enterprise
Linux 6 is in Phase One of its life cycle, meaning users can expect software
updates for some time to come. According to Red Hat, Enterprise Linux 6.7
Beta’s enhanced functionality is intended to help organizations tailor their
infrastructure for both the business needs of today and the IT challenges of
tomorrow.
Improvements designed to boost
security include an update to Performance Co-Pilot that brings monitoring tools
and metric collectors, plus the inclusion of a Security Content Automation
Protocol (SCAP) Scanner and SCAP Workbench. Customers can also prepare to
receive a performance boost via the Logical Volume Manager Cache feature
supported in this update.
LVM Cache maximizes the benefits of
high-speed storage and limits costs by allowing users to create logical volumes
where a flash drive acts as a cache for a larger slower drive. With this
release, Red Hat will help customers migrate workloads for deployment in RHEL 7
via an Enterprise Linux 6.7 base image. Customers will also have the option to
migrate to the RHEL Linux 7 Atomic Host version.
Another notable new feature found in
RHEL 6.7 is Clufter, an offline tool used to convert and cluster
configuration files.
Red Hat has provided a full
list of Enterprise Linux 6.7 Beta’s capabilities and features on their website for anyone to see. Since RHEL 6.7 is in
beta, a general availability date has not be confirmed.
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