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Migration From Oracle 9i on Red Hat 2.1 Advanced Server to Oracle 9i on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.0
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to provide a procedure for migrating a system running Oracle 9i with 9.2.0.4 patch on Red Hat 2.1 Advanced Server to RHEL 3.0 while keeping the Oracle 9i data intact. The paper assumes that all the systems in the...
[June 18, 2009, 14:42]
RHEL 5.4 beta arrives
News The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 beta is the first to integrate KVM-based virtualisation, which will eventually replace the previous virtualisation system, based on Xen. Xen-based virtualisation will continue to be provided and supported...
[July 2, 2009, 17:27]
Red Hat adds virtualisation, cloud to RHEL
News Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4, which was made available to subscribers on Wednesday, incorporates a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) hypervisor — software that allows multiple virtual operating systems to run on a host machine or system.
[September 3, 2009, 13:01]
Linux (RHEL 4) 64-Bit Performance With NFS, iSCSI, and FCP Using an Oracle Database on NetApp Storage
White Papers This technical report provides tuning recommendations that can increase the performance of Linux 2.6- based kernel environments such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 4 with Oracle10g databases. A performance comparison of NFS, iSCSI, and FCP...
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
Blog The fourth update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system (RHEL 5.4) features the usual performance and scalability enhancements. The Linux vendor has committed to supporting the Xen hypervisor until at least 2014 (it has to, in order to...
[September 23, 2009, 22:10]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 review
Reviews However, in our tests RHEL 5 didn’t prove significantly faster than other enterprise Linux implementations running on the same hardware. The much-heralded virtualisation features are based on XenSource technology, which in RHEL 5 provides support...
[April 3, 2007, 13:41]
Red Hat version 5.3 released
News Virtualisation in RHEL 5.3 has been improved, including the ability to make larger virtualised machines — supporting up to 32 virtual CPUs and 80GB of RAM — in x86-64 environments. RHEL is currently used to run a number of large virtualisation...
[January 21, 2009, 7:30]
Red Hat releases delayed Enterprise Linux beta
News Among other features, RHEL 5 Beta 1 includes virtualisation technology based on the open source Xen project, despite Red Hat executives' disparaging comments about Xen in recent weeks. Red Hat said at the beginning of the summer that it would begin...
[September 11, 2006, 16:50]
Red Hat pushes Linux as a service model
News In a sprawling series of announcements on Wednesday, the Linux operating system vendor updated its virtualisation abilities in a new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Red Hat announced a new "appliance" version of RHEL for release next...
[November 8, 2007, 15:39]
Red Hat releases Enterprise Linux 5
News With RHEL 5, the high-specification version has been renamed Advanced Platform (AP) and comes with premium levels of support for an unlimited number of virtual instances of the operating system. After some delays, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5...
[March 14, 2007, 15:00]
Red Hat ties virtualisation future to KVM
News The inclusion of the virtual machine monitor in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 forms parts of the company's wider virtualisation strategy, which was also outlined on Monday. Despite this strategy being based on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual...
[February 24, 2009, 15:39]
Red Hat, Fedora servers compromised
News The breaches involved Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers and those from the company's community-supported Fedora project, which Red Hat sponsors. Red Hat said in a security advisory that it is confident the intrusion did not compromise the Red...
[August 26, 2008, 10:38]
Fedora Linux support group shuts down
News Red Hat offers two versions of Linux, but only Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) comes with long-term support. In the days since Fedora Legacy got started, another free option for Red Hat has cropped up: CentOS, an attempt to reproduce RHEL based on...
[January 3, 2007, 7:20]
Red Hat upgrades kernel to 2.6
News Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHEL 4) is the first time Red Hat's commercial product has included the newer 2.6 Linux kernel. Paul Cormier, Red Hat's executive vice-president of engineering, said one major new feature with RHEL 4 is the...
[February 15, 2005, 11:15]
Red Hat flagship backs Linux standard
News Red Hat claims the RHEL 3 is the first enterprise Linux platform to achieve certification across all LSB Runtime Environment architectures. Certified architectures for RHEL 3 include IA32, Itanium's IA64, IBM iSeries and pSeries, IBM S/390 and IBM...
[December 11, 2003, 14:40]
Red Hat Linux 5.2 beta released
News Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 beta upgrades the core virtualisation hypervisor, Xen, to Xen 3.1.2, and allows support for up to 64 processors per system and up to 512GB of memory per server. The RHEL beta is available in the plain form as...
[March 13, 2008, 15:18]
Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on Dell R900 With Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition
White Papers The Dell PowerEdger R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical database applications from Oracle 9i running on Solaris 9 to Oracle 11g, the latest release of Oracle's data management platform, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (RHEL...
[August 7, 2009, 1:20]
Latest Linux technology takes slow road to the enterprise
News Red Hat waits 12 months to 18 months between new versions of its corporate product, so it's likely that RHEL 4 with Linux 2.6 will arrive in 2005. Red Hat's newest product for businesses, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (RHEL 3.0), released last week...
[October 30, 2003, 9:20]
Red Hat promises Fedora improvements
News RHEL let the company grow from a small market of technically savvy customers to the large market of mainstream customers. But the project has shown some success in maturing technology quickly so it can be incorporated into RHEL, Tiemann said.
[February 21, 2005, 8:20]
Microsoft, Red Hat kick off mixed virtualisation
News The move was first announced in February, when the companies said they intended to validate and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) running on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, as well as Windows Server running on RHEL using the Kernel-based...
[October 8, 2009, 12:19]
