
Standalonesystemsusingthesetechnologiescanbeeasilyupgradedtooperateinmulti-
systemandvirtualizedcongurationsbyupgradingtoRedHatEnterpriseLinuxAdvanced
Platform,whichprovidescompatible,multi-systemandmulti-guest(cluster-wide)
versionsoftheLVM,GFSandDLM.Thisseamlessmigrationeliminatestheneedto
remapthestoragesubsystem,reformatdiskpartitions,orrewriteapplication
synchronizationroutineswhenmovingfromastandaloneservertoamulti-system
orvirtualizedconguration.
Application and virtual machine failover
RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAdvancedPlatformincludesclusterfailoversupport.
Thisallowsforapplicationsandvirtualmachinestobeautomaticallyrestartedor
dynamicallytransferredontoothermachinesinthecluster.Additionally,application
dependentresourcescanbedynamicallymonitoredtotriggerre-hostingofapplications
toalternatephysicalorvirtualmachinestoensurecontinuousoperation.
Enhanced storage capabilities
Alargenumberofnewcapabilitiesareprovidedintheclustering,storage,lesystemand
interconnectspace.Theseinclude:
•TheExt3lesystemwillnowsupport16TBlesystems.
•SystemsthatuseiSCSIandFibreChannelcanbeconguredduringRedHatEnterprise
Linuxinstallation.
•OpenAIS–TheApplicationInterfaceSpecicationisasoftwareAPIandsetofpolicies
whichareusedtodevelopapplicationsthatmaintainserviceduringfaults.TheAPI
consistsofAvailabilityManagementFramework(AMF)whichprovidesapplication
failover,ClusterMembership(CLM),Checkpointing(CKPT),Event(EVT),Messaging
(MSG),andDistributedLocks(DLOCK).AIScanmaskmanytypesoffaultsin
applications,middleware,operatingsystems,orevenhardwarebyprovidingasimple
frameworkforallowingdeveloperstocreateredundantapplications.Theseredundant
applicationscanbedistributedovermultiplenodessuchthatifanyonenodefaults,
anothernodecanrecover.
•Dm-cryptprovidesblock-levelstoragedeviceencryption.Dm-cryptcanbeusedto
providetransparentdataencryptionforanymountabledevice(including,forexample,
USBmemorysticks).Anencryptionkeyisspeciedatmounttime;allwritestothe
devicearethenencryptedandallreadsdecrypted.Thisfeatureisespeciallyvaluable
forhigh-risksystems,suchaslaptops.
Red Hat Network
TheRedHatNetworkclient-sidecomponent(Up2date)hasbeenreplacedwiththehighly
regarded,opensourceYumupdater,andusesPupasthegraphicaluserinterface.Yumis
abletoaccesspublicsoftwarerepositories,andaRedHatYumpluginenablesittoaccess
RedHatNetworkchannels.
What’s New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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