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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 6.4 Release Notes Release Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Edition 4 Last Updated: 2017-10-20 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 6.4 Release Notes Release Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Edition 4 Red Hat Engineering Content Services Legal Notice Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. This document is licensed by Red Hat under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. If you distribute this document, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat, Inc. and provide a link to the original. If the document is modified, all Red Hat trademarks must be removed. Red Hat, as the licensor of this document, waives the right to enforce, and agrees not to assert, Section 4d of CC-BY-SA to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Shadowman logo, JBoss, OpenShift, Fedora, the Infinity logo, and RHCE are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. 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Abstract The Release Notes provide high-level coverage of the improvements and additions that have been implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. For detailed documentation on all changes to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the 6.4 update, refer to the Technical Notes. Table of Contents Table of Contents .P .R . E. F. A. .C .E . .4 . .C .H . A. P. .T .E .R . .1 .. .I N. .S .T .A . L. L. A. .T .I O. .N . .5 . FCoE Support in the Kickstart File 5 Installation over VLAN 5 Configuring Bonding 5 .C .H . A. P. .T .E .R . .2 .. .K . E. R. .N .E . L. .6 . Fibre Channel Protocol: End-To-End Data Consistency Checking 6 Flash Express Support for IBM System z 6 Open vSwitch Kernel Module 6 Oracle ASMLib Availability and Support 6 Comparison of Booted System and Dumped System 7 Perf Tool Updated 7 Uncore PMU Support 7 Reduced memcg Memory Overhead 7 Memory Reclaim and Compaction 7 Support of the Transactional Execution Facility and Runtime Instrumentation Facility 7 Fail-open Mode 7 kdump and kexec Kernel Dumping Mechanism for IBM System z Fully Supported 8 TSC Deadline Support for KVM 8 Persistent Device Naming 8 New linuxptp Package 8 Transparent Hugepages Documentation 8 State of Support for Dump Targets 8 .C .H . A. P. .T .E .R . .3 .. .D . E. V. I.C . E. .D . R. .I V. E. R. .S . .9 . .C .H . A. P. .T .E .R . .4 .. .N . E. T. W. O. R. .K . I.N .G . .1 .0 . HAProxy 10 Mellanox SR-IOV Support 10 .C .H . A. P. .T .E .R . .5 .. .A . U. T. H. .E .N . T. I.C . A. T. .I O. N. A. .N .D . .I N. .T .E .R . O. .P .E .R . A. .B .I L. I.T . Y. .1 .1 . SSSD Fully Supported Features 11 New SSSD Cache Storage Type 11 Adding AD-based Trusted Domains to external Groups 11 Auto-renew Identity Management Subsystem Certificates 11 Automatic Configuration of OpenLDAP Client Tools on Clients Enrolled in Identity Management 11 PKCS#12 Support for python-nss 11 Full Persistent Search for DNS 11 New CLEANALLRUV Operation 12 samba4 Libraries Updated 12 Cross Realm Kerberos Trust Functionality in Identity Management 13 Posix Schema Support for 389 Directory Server 13 .C .H . A. P. .T .E .R . .6 .. .S .E . C. U. .R . I.T .Y . .1 .4 . Treating Matches Authoritatively in Look Ups of sudoers Entries 14 Additional Password Checks for pam_cracklib 14 Size Option for tmpfs Polyinstantiation 14 Locking Inactive Accounts 14 New Modes of Operation for libica 14 Optimization of, and Support for, the zlib Compression Library for System z 15 Fallback Firewall Configuration 15 1 6.4 Release Notes .C .H . A. P. .T .E .R . .7 .. .S .U . B. .S .C . R. I.P . T. I.O . N. .M . A. .N .A . G. .E .M . E. .N .T . .1 .6 . 7.1. SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER 16 String Updates 16 Testing Proxy Connection 16 Subscribe or Unsubscribe Multiple Entitlements 16 Activation Keys Support in the GUI 16 Registering Against External Servers 16 Usability Changes in the GUI 16 7.2. SUBSCRIPTION ASSET MANAGER 16 Installation on Offline Systems 16 Reduced System Registration Workload 16 Migration 16 .C .H . A. P. .T .E .R . .8 .. .V .I R. .T .U . A. L. .I Z. A. T. .I O. N. .1 .8 . 8.1. KVM 18 virtio-SCSI 18 Support for Intel's Next-generation Core Processor 18 Support for AMD Opteron 4xxx Series CPU 18 Guest Live Migration Using USB Forwarding via SPICE 18 Live Migration of Guests Using USB Devices 18 QEMU Guest Agent Updated 18 Paravirtualized End-of-Interrupt Indication (PV-EOI) 19 Configurable Sound Pass-through 19 8.2. HYPER-V 19 Inclusion of, and Guest Installation Support for, Microsoft Hyper-V Drivers 19 Hyper-V balloon Driver 20 8.3. VMWARE ESX 20 VMware PV Drivers 20 .C .H . A. P. .T .E .R . .9 .. .C . L. U. S. .T .E .R . I.N . G. .2 .1 . Support for IBM iPDU Fence Device 21 Support for Eaton Network Power Controller Fence Device 21 New keepalived Package 21 Watchdog Recovery 21 Support for VMDK-based Storage 21 .C .H . A. P. .T .E .R . .1 .0 .. .S .T . O. R. .A ..