Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Provides Virtualization Enhancements
Red Hat, Inc. made public the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, which provides many improvements regarding the virtualization scalability, hardware platform support and includes the OpenJDK JAVA technology.
Scott Crenshaw, vice president, Platform Business Unit at Red Hat stated: “With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, Red Hat has once again delivered a rich set of features, developed through rapid innovation with the open source community, that can increase the capability and drive down the cost of customers’ Information Technology. With the challenge to carve costs out of IT budgets, the flexibility, reliability and simplicity of an Enterprise Linux subscription has more value to customers than ever.”
The virtualized environments (x86 and x64) have an increased scalability: practically up to 32 virtual processors and 80 GB RAM are supported by the third update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The performance of the virtual servers is improved by the new features represented by Hugepage memory and Intel Extended Page Tables (EPT).
In the same time, the support for Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) processors will provide a faster time of response of technical computing applications in comparison with previous Intel processors. Also, this new Red Hat Linux release include features like power management and hyperthreating.
OpenJDK makes the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 “the first enterprise-ready solution with a fully open source Java stack when combined with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform”.
Being an open source implementation of Java SE 6, OpenJDK is compatible with the applications written for Java SE 6 and previous versions. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 update is available for download in case of subscribed customers from Red Hat Network.
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