What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2?

More secure. More scalable. More flexible. Higher record-breaking benchmarks. And always more innovative.

Red Hat® subscriptions provide continuous access to Red Hat software—all supported versions, including security updates, bug fixes, and feature enhancements. Each innovative release is tested and certified by Red Hat and its partners to ensure application stability throughout the lifecycle. With a rich ecosystem of customers, community, and partners, there's always something new and innovative about Red Hat Enterprise Linux®.

Consolidated patches, enhancements, and security updates

On December 6, 2011, just past the 1-year anniversary of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 availability, Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2. With every minor release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 consolidates all patches, enhancements, and security updates from the previous Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 release on May 2011. As always, Red Hat maintains certified application compatibility through strong support and testing of all Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases through our software and hardware partners.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 delivers:

  • Significant improvements in resource management and high availability.
  • New features aimed at storage and file system performance.
  • Identity management functionality.
  • Technology integration with VMware and Microsoft environments.

The key benefits for organizations deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 are:

  • Greater efficiency via resource management and performance optimization.
  • Enhanced business agility through additional security enhancements.
  • More flexibility for virtualized and clustered environments.

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Red Hat already increases the IT capability of tens of thousands of enterprises, while saving them hundreds of millions of dollars. Proven to perform and scale, Red Hat continues to top marks in benchmark performance tests with our partners.

Some of our more recent achievements include:

  • An IDC study commissioned by Red Hat shows that customers who standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Linux achieve lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than those who have a free or mixed Linux environment.  Learn more.
  • Fusion IO SSD performance: 1.3 million Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6—better than Oracle's published results.
  • SpecVirt leadership: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 continues leadership with a new benchmark on large systems and now has the #1 position in 2-, 4-, and 8-socket systems. Every single SpecVirt submission is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests, including VMware results.
  • Proven file system improvements with AIM7 benchmarks comparing ext3, ext4, and XFS® (Scalable File System Add-On).
  • Great scaling and speed running SAS and processing over 90,000 jobs/minute.
  • Leading Linux results on SAP with new SAP Two-Tier SD benchmark results on an HP 8-socket system.
  • Faster messaging, and now iSCSI data movement using 10Gb Ethernet with the High Performance Network Add-On (RDMA over Ethernet).
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is 20%-30% lower idle power than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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