Red Hat has released a platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
The world's largest linux-vendor Red Hat announced the release of its new operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. RHEL system is the foundation on which Red Hat builds almost all of its other products. Users with valid commercial RHEL subscriptions can access the operating system as part of their subscription for free. The company said that RHEL 7 has become more closely integrated with Microsoft Active Directory, it has got the support of storage capacity of up to 500 terabytes by filesystem XFS. In addition, there appeared two new Linux-technology - Linux Containers and Docker. In a statement, the company said that RHEL 7 is available for download today.
"This release focuses on three main areas: flexibility, stability and readiness for mission-critical applications," - says Mark Coggin, senior director of marketing for Red Hat. "We believe that with a set of new features RHEL 7 users will be able to dramatically improve the performance of their IT systems, adding to her stability, making it more manageable and productive". RHEL 7 includes a number of new features to be deployed on physical hardware as virtual machines, as well as in the cloud. Note that unlike other Linux-vendors, such as Ubuntu, Red Hat company has no plans to integrate its distribution platform with the cloud OpenStack. The company said that RHEL 7 received better support for Linux-containers, including their own solutions using Red Hat and through foreign technology Docker.
Earlier, the Red Hat has developed its own technology containerization Project Atomic, which was not included in the main assembly RHEL 7 . Today Atomic is still in beta stage. As described in the company, RHEL 7 has received a number of new tools to work in a heterogeneous environment with Windows. In particular, it has been implemented integration with Active Directory. Integration with this directory service was achieved by System Security Services Daemon (SSSD), which allows RHEL-server to connect to the controller Active Directory. The seventh version of the OS has become the default file system XFS, which allows you to create storage capacity of up to 500 terabytes.
File system ext4, former standard solution in RHEL 6, is also present. Today the company announced that henceforth family operating systems Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be supported by 10 years, ie RHEL 7 gets a guaranteed support until 2024. At the same time, Red Hat releases new OS about every three years. terms of accessibility, RHEL 7 was supported system configuration and control Open Linux Management Infrastructure (OpenLMI). Due to this, users can create accurate setups and packages to install and deploy these guidelines when installing multiple OS instances on a large fleet of equipment.
Coggin also told that appeared in OS and a new set of tools with which to manage the operating system starts. From them, IT administrators can optimize the boot sequence and make startup scripts compatible with both formats, System V, and with the LSB. present in the system and a new version of the installer Anaconda, which allows users to maintain pre-configured profiles for new servers. Here there are new monitoring tools such as Thermostat and Performance Co-Pilot.
.jpg)
