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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bologna - April 2004 Giovanni Capone Senior Consultant [email protected] V1d Why Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Designed to provide the industry's leading Linux solution for enterprise and commercial deployments ● Performance – Engineered with partners; benchmark proven ● Stability – Most thoroughly tested/certified Linux available ● Security – Unmatched track record; continuous enhancements ● Manageability – Highest systems/admin ratio of any environment Supports the applications that enterprise deployments need Available with a range of support services that eliminate risk Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers an unbeatable combination of quality, applications, and services Red Hat Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Developed to meet the needs of Lineage enterprise/commercial customers ● 12-18 month release cycle Red Hat Linux: Developed to meet ● Stable/mature open source the needs of the Open Source movement technology and early technology adopters ● ABI/APIs held stable ● 4-6 month release cycle ● Bundled support – up to 5 years ● Latest open source technology ● Annual subscription ● ABI/APIs may change ● Limited support 2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ● End of life - 1/1/04 Q2/CY02 Q4/CY03 7.1 7.2 Red Hat Linux 8.0 9 Fedora Project: Developed to meet the needs of the Open Source movement Fedora Project ● Rapid release cycle ● Latest open source technology ● ABI/APIs may change ● No support; free download Red Hat Product Family Enterprise Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS - X86, Itanium, AMD64, IBM z,i,p servers Red Hat Open Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES - X86 servers Source 3 Enterprise client/desktop Code Base Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS - X86, Itanium, AMD64 workstations Available from Sales, Partners & Web Stability and quality with extended General purpose desktop release cycle Red Hat Professional Certified ISV applications and OEM Workstation hardware - X86 desktops Leadership price/performance with Available in Retail Stores audited benchmarks Services and support from Red Hat and partners Red Hat Enterprise Architecture Optional n o i User/ISV Applications Customer RHN t a r & ISV plugins u g i Red Hat Developer Suite applications f n o e C l Red Hat Content Management System u k r d o o g Middleware n w i Red Hat Portal Server M t n t e environment: o n i N s e i Red Hat t v Red Hat Application Server m a o Applications e r H g P d a e Red Hat Cluster Suite n a R M g n Operating i r Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS o environment: t i n Red Hat o M Enterprise Hardware – X86, Itanium, AMD64, IBM z,i,p Linux Management environment: System hardware environment: Red Hat Network AMD, IBM, Intel Enterprise Linux market segmentation Target Hardware Target Market Red Hat “Advanced >2 CPUs Large servers (e.g. database & Enterprise Server” >8GB memory (x86) enterprise applications) Linux AS Red Hat SOHO & departmental servers “Entry/Mid 1-2 CPUs Enterprise (e.g. small-medium web, file & Server” Up to 8GB memory Linux ES print configurations) Corporate/home office productivity (e.g. Document Red Hat “Workstation/ creation, email, Web, IM) Enterprise 1-2 CPUs Desktop” technical workstations (e.g. Linux WS CAD/CAM, S/W development) HPC compute nodes Applications, applications, applications.. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the Linux standard for enterprise infrastructure, business application, and tools vendors Support for the Market Leaders Red Hat Certified & Red Hat Ready Apps 459 434 360 323 279 217 175 142 92 69 40 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Hardware, hardware, hardware... Red Hat Enterprise Linux is supported by many leading hardware manufacturers ● With extensive hardware certification—servers and storage Systems with preloaded Red Hat Enterprise Linux available from multiple vendors ● With support provided for complete hardware + Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution Performance & Scalability Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, in combination with the most compelling 2.6 kernel features, delivers world record performance and scalability Red Hat works closely with ISV/OEM partners to provide performance and price/performance benchmark results Quad CPU world record Performance and Price/Performance that beats TPC/C achieved on Windows and HP/UX Itanium 2 system in Operating System TpmC $/tpmC October 2003 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 136,110 $3.94 Windows/SQL Server 121,065 $4.79 HP/UX 131,639 $7.25 Configuration - HP Integrity rx5670 Itanium - 4 CPUs, 96GB with ~6.8 GB storage - Oracle 10g Standard Edition Database TPC/C World Record Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 achieved the overall World Record TPC-C benchmark result on December 8, 2003 17% faster than the # 2 benchmark result 50% faster than fastest Windows 2003 result 98% faster than fastest Sun Solaris result Lowest $/tpmC of the top 10 performance results ~90 Terabyte Oracle 10g Database Based on 16 node Itanium 2 cluster & x86s The only Linux with an audited TPC-C result Proof of scalability, performance and value from Red Hat, HP & Oracle Enterprise Linux release model Extended development of new releases ● Partners and customers involved in alpha/beta tests delivered through Red Hat Network ● 12-18 month release cycle Regular, consolidated updates provided during product lifetime: ● Maintains compatibility across entire family ● Red Hat Network plus typically full ISO respins ● Bug fixes ● Minor enhancements ● New hardware ● 5 years Enterprise Linux support GA 2.5 years 3 years 5 years Full Deployment Maintenance Red Hat Enterprise Linux is supported for a full 5 years from product release Support delivered by Red Hat selected partners ● e.g. Oracle, Dell Three phases of support: ● Full support: Includes hardware updates, bug fixes, security ● Deployment: Includes security bug fixes ● Maintenance: Includes security, selected bug fixes Enterprise Linux product timeline Red Hat Enterprise RHEL3 Alpha Layered Product rollout RHEL3 Beta Q3CY03 Q4CY03 Q1CY04 Q2CY04 Q3CY04 Q4CY04 2.6 Kernel stabilized Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3++ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 launch Expected 2.6.0 Kernel Proposed/expected availability dates. Subject to change Upstream? Linux community kernel versions are always ahead of commercial Linux product kernels ● Productization cycles introduce version skew Features that Red Hat and others develop, which appear in “Upstream” kernels, are often integrated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux products that are based on earlier kernels ● Especially features suitable for commercial environments 2.4 2.4.21 2.6 Linux Kernel Development community Community peer review RHEL3 product RHEL3 product integration & stabilization release 2.4.21-x.EL Red Hat developed features Linux 2.6 & RHEL 3 Kernel Features Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is based on a hybrid kernel, comprising: ● 2.4.21 basic core ● Numerous “backported” features from the 2.6 kernel ● Additional features not yet included in the 2.6 kernel Overall goal is to provide exceptional stability combined with the technical features required by customers and ISVs The few 2.6 features that are not included are: ● Still insufficiently stable for commercial/enterprise use ● Not urgently needed at this time Linux 2.6 & RHEL 3 Kernel Features Feature Included in Included in Provides: Linux 2.6 Enterprise kernel Linux 3 products Native Posix Thread Library (NPTL) Yes Yes High performance POSIX compliant multi-threading Kernel IPSec Yes Yes IPSec layer for use by kernel modules Asynchronous I/O (AIO) Yes Yes Improved application performance O(1) Scheduler Yes Yes Highly scalable SMP scheduler Oprofile Yes Yes CPU-hardware-based performance monitoring Kksymoops Yes Yes Improved kernel bug reporting Reverse Map Virtual Memory (rmap VM) Yes Yes Performance improvement in memory constrained systems HugeTLBFS Yes Yes Performance improvement for large virtual memory applications (e.g. Databases) Remap_file_pages Yes Yes Kernel memory optimization for shared memory applications 2.6 network stack features (IGMPv3, Ipv6...) Yes Yes Improved network capabilities (performance, messaging, standards) Ipvs Yes Yes Network load balancing Access Control Lists (ACLs) Yes Yes Improved file system security management 4GB-4GB memory split No Yes Greatly increased x86 physical memory support and larger application address space Scheduler support for hyperthreaded CPUs No Yes Improved hyperthreaded CPU performance (2.6 implementation not yet comparable) Block I/O (BIO) layer Yes No Major rewrite of the I/O subsystem (stabilization and driver support in progress) Support for >2 TB file system Yes No Support for very large volumes. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 supports up to 1 TB New I/O elevators Yes No Fine tuning for I/O subsystem performance (stabilization in progress) XFS filesystem Yes No High performance file system Interactive scheduler response tuning Yes No Scheduler improvements for interactive tasks (stabilization in progress) Red Hat Enterprise Architecture Optional n o i User/ISV Applications Customer RHN t a r & ISV plugins u g i Red Hat Developer Suite applications f n o e C l Red Hat Content Management System u k r d o o g Middleware n w i Red Hat Portal Server M t n t e environment: o n i N s e i Red Hat t v Red Hat Application Server m a o Applications e r H g P d a e Red Hat Cluster Suite n a R M g n Operating i r Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS o environment: t i n Red Hat o M Enterprise Hardware – X86, Itanium, AMD64, IBM z,i,p Linux Management environment: System hardware environment: Red Hat Network AMD, IBM, Intel Red Hat Applications Red Hat has extended