Distro Realese : Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.1

RED HAT 6.1

 Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.1, the first update of the RHEL 6 series: "Red Hat, Inc. today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, the first update to the platform since the delivery of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in November 2010. In addition to performance improvements, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 also provides numerous technology updates, including: additional configuration options for advanced storage configurations with improvements in FCoE, Datacenter Bridging and iSCSI offload; enhancements in virtualization, file systems, scheduler, resource management and high availability; new technologies that enable smoother enterprise deployments and tighter integration with heterogeneous systems...." Read the press release and the release notes for detailed information about the product. As always, existing RHEL customers can upgrade to 6.1 via the usual upgrade channels or download the new set of DVD images from Red Hat Networks. An evaluation edition is also available.

Source : http://www.distrowatch.com

Hardware support :

USB 3.0

The implementation of version 3.0 of the Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) specification is a fully supported feature in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. USB 3.0 support was previously considered a Technology Preview in previous releases.

CPU and Memory Hot-add

On Nehalem-EX, hot-adding of CPUs and memory is now fully supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. Note, however that the hardware must also support hot-adding. Damage may occur from an attempt to hot-add CPUs or memory on hardware without support for hot-adding.

Driver Updates

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 features a wide range of driver updates, including updates to the following device drivers:

• ixgbe driver for Intel 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network devices
• mlx4 driver for Mellanox ConnectX HCA InfiniBand hardware, providing support for Mellanox Connect X2/X3 10GB devices
• be2net driver for ServerEngines BladeEngine2 10Gbps network devices
• bnx2 driver for Broadcom NetXtreme II network devices, including support for Advanced Error Reporting (AER), and PPC support for 5709 devices
• bnx2i driver for Broadcom NetXtreme II iSCSI
• bnx2x driver for Broadcom Everest network devices
• igbvf and ixgbevf Virtual Function drivers
• tg3 driver for Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet devices
• bfa driver for Brocade Fibre Channel to PCIe Host Bus Adapters
• bna driver for Brocade 10G PCIe ethernet Controllers
• cxgb4 driver for Chelsio Terminator4 10G Unified Wire Network controllers
• be2iscsi driver for ServerEngines BladeEngine 2 Open iSCSI devices
• be2net driver for ServerEngines BladeEngine2 10Gbps network devices
• lpfc driver for Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs
• e1000 and e1000e drivers for Intel PRO/1000 network devices
• Intel Iron Pond ethernet driver
• Intel Kelsey Peak Wireless driver
• Intel SCU driver
• megaraid_sas driver for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers
• mpt2sas driver for the SAS-2 family of adapters from LSI Logic

source: http://www.redhat.com

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