Red Hat has released a new version of its system management tool, the first release based on its open source project Spacewalk. The new Network Satellite 5.3 provides software updates, configuration management, provisioning and monitoring across both physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
Red Hat Network Satellite includes virtual platform management capabilities that allow customers to create and entitle its enterprise Linux systems with the ability to install the same systems profiles physically and virtually in a repeatable, centrally managed way. Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3 supports both KVM and Xen virtualisation technologies.
The enhancements in the latest version of systems management tool include faster provisioning setups with the incorporation of open source Cobbler technology in the product’s underlying provisioning architecture.
Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3 also enables customers to manage large deployments and with comparable performance to smaller deployments due to scalability improvements, such as code optimisation, designed to enhance execution when managing multiple systems. It also allows customers to share content between different organisations in the Satellite server given Satellite’s multi-tenancy capabilities and inter-Satellite synchronisation improvements.
Katrinka McCallum, vice president of management solutions at Red Hat, said: “With Satellite’s ability to further enable expanded productivity and cost reduction for customers managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments, we continue to deliver the technologies and corresponding benefits that our customers have demanded.”
