RHEL 7 Extras Features





Docker: Docker is an open source project that automates the deployment of applications in inside Linux Containers, and provides the capability to package an application with its runtime dependencies into a container.

Device Hotplug Removed: While RHEL 5/6 has device hotplug support (a udev rule that runs the ifup script for newly created devices), it has been disabled for RHEL 7 since it can result in race conditions when initializing newly found.

32 Bit ISO Image: RHEL 7 will only provide 64-bit ISO's, thus allowing only a 64-bit operating environment. RHEL 7 will not natively support 32-bit hardware.

MemAvailable Added to meminfo: A new entry to the /proc/meminfo file has been introduced to provide the MemAvailable field. MemAvailable provides an estimate of how much memory is available for starting new applications, without swapping. However, unlike the data provided by the Cache or Free fields, MemAvailable takes into an account page cache and also that not all reclaimable memory slabs will be reclaimable due to items being in use.

New Ruby and Python Versions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 provides the latest Ruby version, 2.0.0 and Python 2.7.5.

OpenJDK7 Made Default: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 features OpenJDK7 as the default Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java 7 as the default Java version.

NetworkManager : Network Manager has been significantly enhanced to configure and monitor all the networking features for enterprise class servers and for desktop applications.
For the enterprise data centers, NetworkManager can be used for tasks such as basic networking configuration, network teaming, configuring virtual LANs, bridges, bonds, IPv6, VPNs, assigning interfaces to firewall zones, and others. For desktop servers it can manage wired and wireless networks and VPNs.

Support for 40 Gigabit NICs: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 supports 40 Gigabit network interface controllers (NICs) from multiple hardware partners. This provides support for 40 Gigabit Ethernet link speeds, enabling faster network communication for applications and systems. Note that the ethtool utility will report interface link speeds up to 40Gb data rates.

No RHN Classic: RHN Classic is not supported in RHEL7. Older versions supported different subscription management method being used. Red Hat Subcription Management is the only one used by RHEL 7.

OpenSSH - Multiple Required Authentications: RHEL 7 supports multiple required authentications in SSH protocol version 2 using the Authentication Methods option. This option lists one or more comma-separated lists of authentication method names. Successful completion of all the methods in any list is required for authentication to complete.

Minimum Disk Space RHEL7: RHEL 7 now requires at least 1 GB of disk space to install. However, Red Hat recommends a minimum of 5 GB of disk space for all supported architectures.
tmpfs file system: RHEL 7 offers the ability to use /tmp as a mount point for a temporary file storage system (tmpfs).


When enabled, this temporary storage appears as a mounted file system, but stores its content in volatile memory instead of on a persistent storage device. No files in /tmp are stored on the hard drive except when memory is low, in which case swap space is used. This means that the contents of /tmp are not persisted across a reboot.

Logging Framework: RHEL 7 introduces a new logging daemon, journald, as part of the move to systemd.
journald captures the following types of messages for all services:
- SYSLOG messages
- Kernel messages
- Initial RAM disk and early boot messages
- Messages sent to standard output and standard error output.

Mount options: Unlike ext3 and ext4, the XFS file system enables the user_xattr and acl mount options by default. Ext3 and ext4 file systems do not enable these attributes by default.


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