| Oracle Linux 7 reaches the end of Premier Support after December 2024 | | | | | Oracle Linux 7 reaches the end of premier support after December 2024 (x86/aarch64); extended support will be available for x86 platforms starting December 2024. This limits coverage to critical security issues and urgent bug fixes only and covers a smaller scope of x86 packages.
Oracle Linux 6 reaches end of extended support December 2024. After December 2024, Oracle Linux 6 will no longer receive any updates, including security fixes.
Oracle encourages customers to begin migration plans to Oracle Linux 8 or 9.
For additional information on how to extend your OS upgrade timeline, read this blog. |
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| Product Highlights | Oracle VirtualBox 7.1.4 is now generally available
VirtualBox maintenance release 7.1.4 is generally available. This update introduces initial support for Linux Kernel 6.12 and includes bug fixes for Linux, Windows and macOS.
Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.4 is available for download for multiple platforms such as Oracle Linux, other Linux distributions, macOS (Intel and Apple silicon), Windows, and Oracle Solaris. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, visit the Oracle VirtualBox 7.1.4 changelog.
Read the blog post for more details.
Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 7 Update 3 delivers enhanced performance and security
This latest release brings advancements for secure remote communications, features driver updates from key partners including NVIDIA, Broadcom, Marvell, Microchip, and Microsoft, and includes various critical security improvements and bug fixes from the upstream community. Oracle Linux with UEK delivers mission-critical performance and security optimizations, tailored to run customers' data and compute-intensive workloads running across distributed environments.
UEK R7U3 is developed, built, tested, and supported on the 64-bit Intel and AMD (x86-64), and 64-bit Arm (aarch64) architectures.
For more detailed information, please refer to the UEK R7U3 Release Notes and blog post. |
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| Partners Solutions | Get better user data by running a Real User Monitoring System
ManageEngine Applications Manager is on-premises application performance monitoring software that monitors heterogeneous business applications and their underlying infrastructure components.
ManageEngine's Real User Monitoring (RUM), an agent of Applications Manager, is a performance monitoring tool that analyzes the user experience of a website or application in real time. It provides insights into how users interact with an application, and how factors like browser type, device type, and internet service provider affect the user experience.
RUM is supported on Oracle Linux 8 and 9.
Want to encrypt your data during transport?
Thales CipherTrust Transparent Encryption (CTE, formerly known as Vormetric Transparent Encryption) delivers data-at-rest encryption with centralized key management, privileged user access control, and detailed data access audit logging. This protects data wherever it resides, on-premises, across multiple clouds, and within big data and container environments.
CTE is supported when deployed on Oracle Linux 8 and 9. |
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| Developers Corner | How fragmented is your XFS file system?
Fragmentation can results from uneven file growth, creation, and deletion activities. This fragmentation can cause files to be scattered across different areas of the disk, which may impact performance, as accessing or modifying these files could require multiple disk operations. Regular maintenance and defragmentation can help ensure that files remain contiguous, maximize storage efficiency, and enhance overall system performance and reliability.
This blog post provides insight into fragmentation and instructions that can help defragment your file system.
Optimizing Linux storage with Device Mapper Multipath
In Linux storage management, ensuring data availability, reliability, and performance is key. Device Mapper Multipath (DM Multipath) is a powerful Linux kernel feature that addresses these needs, especially in Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. It aggregates multiple physical paths to storage devices into a single logical device, enhancing fault tolerance and load balancing.
DM Multipath helps ensure high availability by managing redundant paths, offering protection against failures, and improving I/O performance by efficiently distributing the load across available paths. It is an essential tool for maintaining reliable and efficient storage operations in Linux environments.
Read the blog post for additional information on key features and functionality.
Automate virtual machine migrations using virt-v2v with
Oracle Linux Automation Manager
When your fleet of virtual machines grows to a large number, Oracle Linux Automation Manager can help simplify the migration procedure by automating the process, making it more efficient and less error prone. The combination of Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Oracle Linux Automation Manager minimizes manual intervention and helps ensure a smooth migration, making it easier to manage virtual environments at scale.
This tutorial provides a brief playbook and details all the necessary steps to migrate VMs using Oracle Linux Automation Manager's capabilities.
The blog post has additional information.
How to write a data viewing tool for Performance Co-Pilot
PCP, short for Performance Co-Pilot, is an open source framework and toolkit designed for monitoring, analyzing, and responding to system performance data. To access PCP data, you can use various client tools, such as pmrep, pmval, pminfo, pmprobe, and pmchart. These tools enable you to retrieve, display, archive, and process performance data on the same host or over the network.
In this blog post, the author describes how to write a tool to present PCP data in a user-friendly way.
Announcing UEK-next for Linux kernel 6.10
UEK-next for kernel 6.10 has been posted!
UEK-next refers to upstream kernel builds of the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK), showcasing upcoming features that are still in the testing phase but aimed for future stable releases. Developers and enterprises might use UEK-next for testing and feedback before these features are finalized and integrated into the stable UEK versions.
Find additional details in the blog post. |
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