Red Hat Enterprise Linux

What's New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

More Secure. More Scalable. More Flexible. Higher Record Breaking Benchmarks. And, Always More Innovative!

Red Hat subscriptions provide continuous access to Red Hat software -- all supported versions, including security updates, bug fixes and feature enhancements. Each innovative release is tested and certified by Red Hat and its partners to ensure application stability throughout the life cycle. With a rich ecosystem of customers, community and partners, there is always something new and innovative about Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

On December 6th 2011, a little over the one-year anniversary of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 availability, Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2. With every minor release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 consolidates all patches, enhancements and security updates from the previous Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 release, May 2011. As always, Red Hat maintains certified application compatibility through strong support and testing of all Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases through our Software and Hardware Partners.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 delivers significant improvements in resource management and high availability, new features aimed at storage and file system performance, identity management functionality, and technology integration with VMware and Microsoft environments. The key benefits for organizations deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 are greater efficiency realized through resource management and performance optimization, along with enhanced business agility through additional security enhancements and more flexibility for virtualized and clustered environments.

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Performance Benchmarks and Scalability Leadership

Red Hat already increases the IT capability of tens of thousands of enterprises while saving them hundreds of millions of dollars. Proven to perform and scale, Red Hat continues to top marks in Benchmark Performance tests with our partners.

Please reference our reference architecture page to view the details of all our benchmarks and industry publicized tests.

Some of our more recent achievements include:

  • IDC Standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Linux - lower TCO than Free or Mixed environment
  • Fusion IO NAND flash storage performance: 1.3 million iops on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - better than Oracle's published results
  • SpecVirt leadership: Red Hat Enterprise Linux6 continues leadership with a new benchmark on large systems and now has the #1 position in 2, 4 and 8 socket systems. Every single SpecVirt submission is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests, including VMware results.
  • Proven filesystem improvements with AIM7 benchmarks comparing ext3, ext4 and XFS (Scalable File System Add-On)
  • Great scaling and speed running SAS and processing over 90,000 jobs/minute
  • New Linux results on SAP with new SAP Two-Tier SD benchmark on an HP 8 socket system
  • Faster messaging & now iSCSI data movement using 10Gb Ethernet with HPN Add-On (RDMA over Ethernet)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is 20%-30% lower idle power than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5