Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
for Servers
Security, reliability, and control for the Datacenter
The platform for mission-critical computing
Every day, millions of dollars in trades, purchases, and analysis are generated on systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With support for every major hardware platform and thousands of commercial and custom applications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become the global standard for enterprise datacenters.
In this time of massive and disruptive technological change, Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides businesses with the stability and flexibility they need to not only survive, but to thrive, as they transition to the next generation of IT computing.
Benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
A trusted datacenter platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the foundation of a long-term IT strategy, supporting all leading hardware architectures with compatibility across releases and including a seven-year update and support lifecycle (optionally extendable to ten years). Modular, flexible, robust architecture and management tools offer more control and scalability, and a portfolio of Add-On options enhance infrastructure and application availability.
Application performance, scalability, and security
New standards in multi-core and virtual systems require a platform that can manage complexity — scaling up or out to meet business needs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has proven performance on systems with over a hundred cores and terabytes of memory, making it suitable for the largest enterprise application deployments. With technology designed specifically for monitoring, managing, and securing applications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an ideal guest on any of the major virtualization platforms.
Delivers flexibility and control across IT infrastructures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows businesses to deploy physical, virtual, and cloud computing within their datacenters. Red Hat technologies span all environments, removing barriers, increasing efficiency, and leveraging employee skills. Integrated virtualization allows physical and virtual deployments to interoperate, while fine-grained control of compute resources (e.g., CPU, memory, networking, and I/O) allows businesses to manage application and guest service-level agreements (SLAs). Power management features reduce datacenter carbon footprint, and enhanced interoperability simplifies integration into Microsoft Windows Active Directory environments.
Server Variants
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server is a versatile platform that can be deployed on physical systems, as a guest on the major hypervisors, or in the cloud.
Hardware partners, ISVs, and customers depend on the stability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux core system infrastructure, provided by published interfaces (kABI, core libraries, and service infrastructure) that Red Hat assures through and across releases. Supported hardware ranges from a single socket to the largest systems produced by our partners. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server also includes a complete LAMP stack (Apache/Tomcat, PHP/Perl/Python, MySQL/PostgreSQL), file and print services (NFS, CIFS/SMB, CUPS), and authentication services (openldap, kerberos5).
Subscriptions are available with flexible guest entitlements of one, four, or unlimited guests per physical host.
Red Hat offers packages specifically for the scientific user who needs to deploy clusters of systems that work together to take on the most challenging of missions.
An HPC (High Performance Computing) Compute Node is designed for deployment as a member of an HPC cluster. Primary goals in this deployment model are a slim component set, excellent hardware detection and monitoring capabilities, centralized authentication and logging services, and fast IO.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Head Node is a full-featured platform to be deployed as the interactive system in an HPC cluster. Each Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Node subscription inherits the support level of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Head Node that is deployed in the cluster.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z®
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, deployed on IBM System z, provides flexibility, performance, and scalability for server consolidation or for mainframe reliability. Built on a decade-plus industry collaboration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z brings Linux applications to the mainframe, and delivers efficient management for your Linux workloads.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM POWER®
Deploy applications with confidence using the advanced features in IBM Power Systems and the consistency and flexibility of the market-leading Linux operating platform. Standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux across your x86, Power, and Mainframe systems reduces complexity for operations and development — without compromising reliability. Applications can be responsive to business needs with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and support for the latest features in POWER7 and LPAR hardware partitioning.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Business Applications
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Business Applications includes the entire software stack required for optimal operation of SAP applications, as well as enterprise-class service and support. Our customers now have a ready-to-use, fully supported SAP environment in a single package for new installations, and for migrations of existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
A premium offering of mature software, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Business Applications was specifically developed by Red Hat in collaboration with SAP and our partners who support SAP. Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Servers and the Resilient Storage Add-On, this variant includes the JDK, critical libraries, and the high-availability agent scripts developed specifically for running SAP.
Red Hat and SAP have combined forces to support this offering in both physical and virtual deployments. If any issues arise, Red Hat's support team works directly with SAP to provide you with a single point of contact for quick resolution.
