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RED HAT CONFIDENTIAL1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Product Roadmap

Platform Business Unit Product Management

February 2013


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Agenda

● Customer and market requirements

● Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle

● Roadmap● Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5● Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6


Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the world’s leadingenterprise platform, providing IT leaders the kind of stability

that frees you to take on your biggest challenges now, the flexibility to do what’s most important in the future,

and an ecosystem of solutions and supportthat will be at your side, no matter what.

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INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION

RISC / UNIX migration

Compelling TCO

Industry-standard infrastructure

OPERATIONALEFFICIENCY

Standard operating environment

Staffing efficiencies

Uptime and reliability

NEXT-GENERATIONSOLUTIONS

Cloud

Big Data

Social Business

Hyperscale

1. 2. 3.

Customer and marketing requirementsWhy companies choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux


Customer and Market Functional Priorities

Cloud capabilities

Windows interoperability

Clustering

Mission critical app support

Scalability

Ease of use

Database software

Ease of management/maintenance

Security

Vitualization

Reliability

Performance

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

Top Linux Requirements


Red Hat Enterprise Linux Roadmap*

CY2010 CY2011 CY2012 CY2013 CY2014

RHEL 6

RHEL 5

RHEL 4

RHEL 3

Extended Life PhaseProduction 3Production 2Production 1

.4

.10

RHEL 7

.11

*All dates are approximate and subject to change


Red Hat Enterprise Linux – Life Cycle

10 YEARS


Themes: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

● Stability

● Critical and important security advisories

● Customer requested feature enhancements

● Enhanced performance as guest OS

● Stability

● Critical impact security advisories

● Resolution of customer reported defects

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.9 RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.10


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9

Hardware Enablement● Support for new processors

from Intel and AMD

Networking● Latest OFED release

Customer Requested Application Updates

● Faster and more reliable logging

● Scalability and performance improvements with SMB 2.0 protocol

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Resolution of customer reported defects

No hardware enablement








from Intel and AMD

















● Hardware

● Support for new processors (Intel and AMD)

● Networking

● OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) updated to current version

● Hardware enablement for QLogic InfiniBand PCI-Express HCAs

● Customer requested application updates

● Faster and more reliable

● Updated rsyslog to current version (rsyslog5)● Samba upgrade to samba 3.6

● Supports new SMB2 protocol improvements● Reworked print server

● Includes Java 7




from Intel and AMD

















● Production Phase 2 release

● Plan of Record availability: Q4 2013

● Critical and Important Security errata advisories (RHSAs)

● Urgent Priority Bug Fix errata advisories (RHBAs)




from Intel and AMD

















● Production Phase 3 Release

● Plan of Record availability: 1H 2014

● Critical Impact Security errata advisories (RHSAs)

● Urgent Priority Bug Fix errata advisories (RHBAs)

● No new hardware enablement

● No new software features or enhancements


Themes: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

● Operational efficiency

● Built-in Security

● High availability

● Interoperability

● Scalability

● Adaptability (virtualization and cloud)

● Faster development and deployment

STABILITY FOR TODAY FLEXIBILITY FOR TOMORROW



High Availability● Support for HA in guests

Performance and Scalability● Tuning profiles to reduce

administrative overhead

Storage● Full support for FCoE target

Security● Two-factor authentication

Identity Management● Centralized management of

SSH keys


Resource Management● Process wide migration in cgroups

File System● Full support for pNFS with Direct I/O

Storage● Scalable snapshots and thinly

provisioned volumes

Networking● IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol

Virtualization● Guest installation support for

Microsoft and VMware

Identity Management● Improved Windows SSSD

interoperability

Security● Support for TLS 1.1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 roadmap


Installer improvements● Support for advanced

networking

File System● btrfs improvements

Virtualization● Advanced power

management

Networking● Network namespaces

support

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4: Resource Management

● Process-wide migration in cgroups● Migrate multi-threaded applications from one group to

another● perf support for latest processors

● Optimized performance measurement on the latest Intel processors


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4: File System and Storage

● Direct I/O support in pNFS

● Reduced overhead associated with data caching in certain workloads like databases for greater performance

● Full support for Scalable snapshots of thinly provisioned logical volumes

● Thin provisioning for efficient allocation of logical devices ● Mapping of block device names to physical devices

● Persistent way to locate devices for reduced overhead

● Support for greater number of tape devices

● Increased to 512 via VTLs


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4: Networking

● Quick failover for multi-homed connections in SCTP

● Allows faster application recovery from communication interruptions

● IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (Technology Preview)

● Enables precise synchronization of distributed clocks over the network achieving clock accuracy in sub-microsecond range

● Network Manager enhancements● Support for configuring NIC bonding and network bridges


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4: Virtualization

● Guest installation support for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware

● Installer is better aware of the underlying hypervisor and attempts to install the relevant para-virt drivers

● Support for virtio-scsi● New storage architecture that provides industry leading

storage stack scalability and allows hundreds of devices to be connected to a guest


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4: Identity Management

● Cross-realm Kerberos trust (Technology Preview)● Easier to manage user identities in a Windows / RHEL

environment● Easier, centralized management of SSH keys and

SELinux user mappings

● SSSD Active Directory Provider● Easier direct client integration into Active Directory

● SSSD Integration with SUDO and Automount● Systems have the same SUDO and automount policies

whether they are connected to central server or have temporarily lost connection (are offline)


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4: Security

● Support for TLS 1.1● Increased security; improved error handling

● Support for SCAP 1.2

● Disable user accounts based on an administrator defined inactivity period









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