Red Hat has announced today the launch of its flagship product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has come with major improvements to the business world, as advertised on scalability and virtualization.
The first concept is very important because it is one that allows an operating system (in this case RHEL 6) can be installed on small servers but also in those with 64 processors and 4 TB of RAM or more. It also allows you to use the power "on demand" so that when they are not needed, some processors are placed in a low-power mode to reduce costs.
The Virtualization For its part, is one of the fastest growing fields in recent years, and Red Hat has not been immune to it. Since its acquisition of Qumranet has made great strides in 2008 and has slowly been adopting KVM and its advantages: the mixing of memory pages similar to the kernel (which helps reduce the consumption of RAM when multiple clients are being used in a host system ) and Single Root I / O Virtualization (SR-IOV), which allows multiple customers to share the same hardware.
This has led to staggering levels and that until a couple of years ago would have seemed impossible to achieve, and is that today you can run a client system with a performance of between 85 and 95% of which would using the native hardware.
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