Red Hat Enterprise 5

Feature, function and benefit summary

Feature Function Benefit

Virtualization Comprehensive para- and full-virtualization capabili- Lower costs, higher availability, increased security ties enable multiple operating systems – and and no more forced upgrades. Para-virtualization, third party – to run on the same system. Included with which offers higher performance and extended all server subscriptions. features, is provided for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Virt-manager and libvirt/virsh management tools. and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 guests. Straightfor- ward and flexible management.

Red Hat This new product provides full server and storage Combines basic virtualization with synergistic Enterprise Linux virtualization, with multi-guest and multi-system storage and clustering components to deliver a Advanced logical volume management, distributed application complete environment in one product. Platform synchronization, Red Hat Global File System, and .

Security SELinux Multi-Level Security allows certification Security capabilities to meet government require- to EAL4+/LSPP. All services protected by targeted ments. Simplified management reduces costs and policies. GUI-based SE-Troubleshooter provides skills necessary to ensure highly secure environ- easy-to-understand, real-time security informa- ments. Support for smart card login improves user tion. Improved ExecShield stack protection. identification & intrusion detection and prevention. Support for smart card login. Tightly integrated with Red Hat Directory Server. Storage device encryption allows all data on a Dm-crypt, a device manager target, can be used device to be protected under an encryption key – to provide encryption for any mountable device. this feature is especially valuable for high risk systems, such as laptops.

Auditing Enhancements to the audit subsystem include the Audit functionality enables Red Hat addition of powerful searching and reporting tools, Enterprise Linux 5 to meet US Government and the inclusion of a unique real-time interface. certifications such as CAPP/LSPP and NISPOM Audit is fully integrated into SELinux (Note that and also assist organizations to meet regulatory Audit and SElinux are the only Mandatory Access requirements such as Sarbanes Oxley and HIPPA. Control security and reporting capabilities in the upstream Linux kernel.)

Microsoft® Extensive Samba enhancements provide improved Cost reduction through consistent user and resource Windows® integration with Microsoft Active Directory, more management. Simplified integration with installed interoperability consistent user/group mapping and nested groups. Microsoft file, print, authentication environments.

Simplified AS, ES, WS variants eliminated, replaced by Two server solutions: product consistent server and client products with • Red Hat Enterprise Linux - for small to medium packaging optional feature upgrades. servers, includes virtualization. Red Hat® Desktop replaced by Red Hat • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform - Enterprise Linux® Desktop – available in single for departmental and datacenter systems, units, with no Proxy/ ranging from large web servers to corporate server prerequisite databases. Provides extensive server & storage. virtualization capabilities. One client solution: • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop - provides full featured end-user environment.

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Manageability The Red Hat Network client – – has been The open source /Pup updater provides a more replaced by the open source Yum updater and Pup powerful package management environment than graphical user interface. A Red Hat plugin allows up2date, and is also able to access public repositories. Yum to access Red Hat Network channels. Red Hat The libvirt virtualization control library provides a Network has also been updated to manage standard and stable API for management applica- virtualized systems. tions. Virsh allows script control of virtualization A number of virtualization management tools are activities, while Virt-Manager provides a powerful provided, including libvirt, virsh, and virt-manager. graphical user interface.

Distributed AutoFS improvements provide direct map and lazy Improved security and performance with networked System mount/unmount support. Mount maps can be shared files systems, especially NFS. Improved co- Enhancements with proprietary UNIX environments. Binds can be existence with UNIX environments reduces adminis- authenticated with LDAP servers using Kerberos and tration costs, improves performance and security, Digest-MD5. NFSv4 support for the latest standards- and simplifies migration. based features, such as SecureNFS and server-side delegation.

Performance Numerous performance enhancements include More efficient hardware resource utilization, FS-Cache, a local cache for remote file systems, improved application throughput. Improved per I/O queue scheduler selection, SMP locking scalability on large SMP (scale-up) systems improvements, support for CPU sets, new circular- buffer pipe implementation, and many others.

File systems Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes a single system (or Easy upgrades and scalability. All systems can use virtualized guest) version of Red Hat's Global File the highly scalable Global File System in single System (GFS). Ext3 enhancements provide improved instance mode. Subsequent migration to multi- performance and scalability to 16TB. guest or multi-system shared storage deployments is greatly simplified.

Development GCC 4.1 compiler with Glibc 2.4, combined with Improved/accelerated application development, tools SystemTap profiler and Frysk debugger, provide debugging, and performance analysis. industry-leading code generation, kernel profiling, and multi-system/process/thread user mode debugging.

Desktop Enhanced graphics subsystem with the Metacity window Improved desktop end-user experience. Automated environment manager and Compiz compositing manager. Updated configuration of networks and graphics. Numerous application set (GNOME, OpenOffice, Firefox, etc). Greatly eye-candy desktop graphics features (fading, improved wireless and laptop support. Extended support zooming, rotating desktops, etc). for printers and USB devices such as cameras. Suspend/resume/power management/etc support for many laptops. Improved file format interoper- ability with Microsoft Office.

Stateless Linux Collection of technologies to enable a small set of Improved security, data management, and adminis- server and client system images to be rapidly tration scalability through simplified provisioning deployed onto large numbers of machines. All and management of multiple systems (physical or user data and configuration information is securely virtual, server or client). Initial technologies replicated on a file server. provided in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, additional features planned for subsequent releases.

Desktop Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop provides two Workstation option provides support for high-end product options upgrade options: Workstation and Multi-OS. client systems and power users. Multi OS option enables client-side virtualization.

Multipath I/O Enhanced to support root device and configurable Enhanced availability and performance through failover during system installation and load balancing across multiple I/O configurations.

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