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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is out

 | Wednesday, 10. November 2010 23:34

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is out, at long last. Also IMHO lot of Code come from Fedora 13 not from Fedora 12 also there are lot of Kernel features from 2.6.32 until 2.6.34. The Release is pretty good beside some Problems with the Cluster we found ( it’s running but not really ready for Production ), hope they fix that very soon. Also certification is not there from the Major ISV’s.

Over 3.5 Years after RHEL5, RHEL6 came out. For me I think Red Hat will get into bigger Problems with the Major Releasecycle sooner or later. If they don’t Release a Major Release every 2 -max. 3! Years they don’t get the necessary Hardware update into they’re Kernel. From my side I don’t understand that they wait so long. So at the End the Releaseschedule for RHEL is complete not plannable from outside.Means also the ISV will have some Problems.

Also the Subscriptions have change significant ! http://www.redhat.com/rhel/purchasing_guide.html
Now you have to Subscribe per two – sockel ! also there are 3 diffrent Version for Virtual Guest inclusion. Then more or less all important packages are separate als Add-On ( don’t really understand what is where included )

–> conclusion we are back to RHEL 4 Times


Also the Add-On EUS has two variants EUS and ELS, where EUS extend the Lifecycle of a minor Release the ELS extend the Lifecycle of a Major Release ! BUT the exclusions are Big if you go to Site:

http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/extended_lifecycle_support/exclusions/

http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/RH_ELS_CustomerDatasheet.pdf

then you found out that Cluster and GFS for RHEL4 are not supported anyway –> How should buy such a ELS ? For which Server do I need a ELS ? Not for a Single Server, this I could maybe migrate.


Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server is sold on a per-socket-pair basis. This means the following prices are for every two populated sockets in the server. For example a 2-socket server with up to 1 guest and Premium support would cost $1,299/year, while a 4-socket server would cost twice that or $2,598.

1 year 3 year
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Self-support (up to 1 guest)
$349/socket-pair $995/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Standard (up to 1 guest)
$799/socket-pair $2,277/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Premium (up to 1 guest)
$1,299/socket-pair $3,702/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Standard (up to 4 guests)
$1,199/socket-pair $3,417/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Premium (up to 4 guests)
$1,949/socket-pair $5,555/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Standard (unlimited guests)
$1,999/socket-pair $5,697/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Premium (unlimited guests)
$3,249/socket-pair $9,260/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z®
Standard
$15,000/IFL $42,750/IFL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z®
Premium
$18,000/IFL $51,300/IFL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM POWER®
Standard
$2,700/socket-pair $7,695/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM POWER®
Premium
$4,300/socket-pair $12,255/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Node
Self-support
$79/socket-pair $225/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Head Node (1)
Standard (up to 1 guest)
$1,598/socket-pair $4,554/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Head Node (1)
Premium (up to 1 guest)
$2,598/socket-pair $7,404/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP applications
Premium (unlimited guests)
$3,249/socket-pair $9,260/socket-pair

1 Head node support level is inherited by all the compute nodes in the high-performance cluster.

Add-On Functionality

Optional functionality can be added to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server subscription. The following prices are in addition to the price of the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server subscription. The Add-On inherits the support of the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server subscription.

1 year 3 year
High Availability $399/socket-pair $1,137/socket-pair
Load Balancer $199/socket-pair $567/socket-pair
Resilient Storage $799/socket-pair $2,277/socket-pair
Scalable File System $199/socket-pair (1)
$29/socket-pair (2)
$567/socket-pair (1)
$83/socket-pair (2)
High Performance Network $199/socket-pair $567/socket-pair
Smart Management $192 (3)
$288 (4)
$576 (5)
$547 (3)
$821 (4)
$1,642 (5)

1 If attached to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server subscription or a Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Head Node
2 If attached to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Nodes subscription
3 If attached to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (up to 1 guest) subscription
4 If attached to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (up to 4 guests) subscription
5 If attached to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (unlimited guests) subscription

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Red Hat / Fedora Web services outage !

 | Thursday, 29. April 2010 13:46

Since this early morning 2010-04-29 03:45 UTC looks like a Red Hat DataCenter ( PHX2 ) face a major outage ! Lot of Fedora Webservices are affected and also Red Hat themself with Bugzilla , German Website etc.

there is absolut no Infor on a Red Hat Site about this Problem.

see Fedora Announcement:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/infrastructure/2010-April/008776.html

http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-outage-list
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Welcome to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta

 | Thursday, 22. April 2010 7:46

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5

 | Thursday, 1. April 2010 17:03

Mit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 wird im Bereich Virtualisierung einiges geändert  / ergänzt.

siehe auch die Release Notes:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html-single/Release_Notes/#id543727

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Intel Nehalem – EX Overview

 | Sunday, 7. March 2010 21:42

With the Nehalem – EX we will have the first Time since 2006 the possibility to choice between Intel and AMD also for our Database Servers. The Nehalem – EX will also scale over all Sockets for the Memory Performance.

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Linux With StandardServer another Reason

 | Tuesday, 22. December 2009 1:06

Now also the Red Hat Support for Itanium with RHEL 6 is dead! That exactly what we feel 3 years ago.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/18/redhat_rhel6_itanium_dead/

http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Red-Hat-beendet-Entwicklung-fuer-Itanium-Update-890195.html

I very happy that we decide to go with Standardsever, on the longterm that was the best Decision

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The Tru Linux Story

 | Tuesday, 23. June 2009 15:13

Now I’m on the way to Berlin, final Presentation is done I also did some practice hope that Help ;-)

–> http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/de/program/freies-vortragsprogramm/mittwoch/vortragsdetails.html?talkid=141

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Magny-Cours versu Nehalem EX

 | Tuesday, 26. May 2009 23:06

Next Year will be extrem exiting with all this new CPU’s. Also because AMD don’t support 8 Sockets anymore with the Maranello Platform and in the First time Intel do ;-)

I really look forward to do some testing with this stuff.

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ERFA Enterprise Linux Adliswil 2009

 | Tuesday, 20. January 2009 23:00

Am 20.01.2009 haben wir uns wieder zu einem Erfahrungsaustausch in Adliswil getroffen. Wie immer ging es um Erfahrungen im Bereich Enterprise Linux. Da gibt es immer noch sehr wenig Informationen, darum war dieses Mal das Echo einfach überwältigend. Ich musste sogar einen neuen Raum organisieren.

Auch haben wir abgestimmt das wir uns dieses Jahr nochmal treffen wollen da das Bedürfniss recht gross ist.  es machen schon

ERFA Enterprise Linux

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Red Hat Cluster Suite fencing / Dump Problem

 | Tuesday, 30. September 2008 22:52

Because the Red Hat Cluster do fencing with Power off we have long-time ago a fencing Problem. Means if we fence one Member and this one has to write a dump we have only arround 120s to write his dump to the swap file, then he will be fenced with power-off. during this time the Cluster will be freezed because we don’t no the exact status from the member.

To reduce the freeze time, we need a extrem fast local swap storage. So I saw from fusionio.com that they sell a SSD internal disk with 600mb/s radom write ( http://www.fusionio.com/PDFs/Fusion specsheet_v16.pdf )! Thats extrem fast, so I thinking to buy one. But that is one drawback –> price are also very high around 30$/GB and I’m not sure if its works with diskdump.

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