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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
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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
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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
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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
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux – Life Cycle
10 YEARS
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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
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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
End of Production Phase 1
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10
End of Production Phase 2
Resolution of customer reported defects
No hardware enablement
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11
End of Production Phase 3
Resolution of customer reported defects
No hardware enablement
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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
End of Production Phase 1
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10
End of Production Phase 2
Resolution of customer reported defects
No hardware enablement
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11
End of Production Phase 3
Resolution of customer reported defects
No hardware enablement
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
● 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
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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
End of Production Phase 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RoadmapJan 2013 Jun 2013 Jun 2014
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10
End of Production Phase 2
Resolution of customer reported defects
No hardware enablement
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11
End of Production Phase 3
Resolution of customer reported defects
No hardware enablement
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10
● Production Phase 2 release
● Plan of Record availability: Q4 2013
● Critical and Important Security errata advisories (RHSAs)
● Urgent Priority Bug Fix errata advisories (RHBAs)
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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
End of Production Phase 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RoadmapJan 2013 Jun 2013 Jun 2014
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10
End of Production Phase 2
Resolution of customer reported defects
No hardware enablement
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11
End of Production Phase 3
Resolution of customer reported defects
No hardware enablement
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11
● 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
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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
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
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 6.3
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
Installer improvements● Support for advanced
networking
File System● btrfs improvements
Virtualization● Advanced power
management
Networking● Network namespaces
support
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