The new Oracle Linux 6.5 is there: stakes and opportunities inside the highly competitive market.

Henceforth available, with this new release, Oracle wants to stand by providing its customers with the features and capabilities necessary for their business-critical workloads. But the market remains very competitive.

In this momentum, Oracle Linux 6.5 brings for example the complete integration with DTrace, the popular dynamic tracing framework for superior

troubleshooting, and performance analysis.

Among the key features, Connectikpeople has captured:

Full integration of DTrace: is now part of the default Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and can be used for real-time tracing, troubleshooting and tuning,

 Oracle Linux 6.5 also supports User-Level Statically Defined Tracing (USDT), allowing application developers to place DTrace probe points into applications for tuning, problem isolation and reporting.

Production Linux Containers support: Linux Containers can provide very efficient operating system level virtualization and works in conjunction with Linux Control Groups: here users can quickly and easily consolidate workloads under a container and provide boundaries on resources including memory, CPU or disk I/O.

InfiniBand updates: it brings a merge of upstream OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 2.0 features like IPoIB, eIPoIB, SRP, iSER, EoIP, and Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS), including support for netfilter, enable superior throughput, low latency, and excellent scalability.

File system improvements: New features for the btrfs file system enable administrators to implement an efficient incremental backup mechanism using file system snapshots, set different size limits for volumes and subvolumes, and free up storage space with file hole punching.

Intel Ivy Bridge Processor family support: Allows customers to utilize their Ivy Bridge-based servers as Oracle Linux hosts.

Paravirtualization drivers: Customers have the ability to run Oracle Linux as a guest on Microsoft Server Hyper-V and Windows Azure with new paravirtualization drivers.

And more…