rhel 6 new features

Recently I attended one presentation from Redhat public on RHEL6 features. Some of the mesmerizing features as below.

• 85% more post(Applications/softwares/tools) then RHEL5
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• RHEL6 supports up to 4096 CPU’s
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• RAM supported by RHEL6 is up to16TB.
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• File system up to 100TB with EXT4 file-system.
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• Very much optimized to support many hardware
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• Can control 90000 jobs/min(I believe it’s too excellent I’m loving it.)
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• SELinux sand-boxing for more SELinux control.
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• KVM for virtualization.
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• 7+3 years of extended support.
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• Lower Power consumption(20% less when compared to RHEL5) — A green initiate.
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• When handling Virtual machines(VM) RHEL6 on RHEL6 is excellent at performance when compared to RHEL5 vm on RHEL6 server
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• More Reliability, Availability, serviceability(RAS)
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• Rapid file system recovery(up to 10x quicker than rhel5).
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• Resource management through Control group(CGroup) sand-boxing the process.

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