Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the latest release of Red Hat's trusted datacenter platform, delivers improvements in application performance, scalability and security. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 you can deploy physical, virtual and cloud computing solutions within your datacenter. This can reduce complexity, increase efficiency and minimize administration overhead whilst leveraging technical skills and operational know-how. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is an ideal platform to translate current and future technology innovations into the best value and scale for IT solutions.

In this session, we will go through the major technology improvements first introduced with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 6.1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 offers unprecedented resource management. With cGroups, administrators and application developers can set policies by process, applications, and even guests to match network, memory, and cpu usage to business needs and service-level agreements. At the same time, RHEL6 provides operating system control for platforms to have enhanced system power management, and end-to-end data integrity.

This lab gives an introduction to technologies like cGroups, LXC, and diverse tools related to Power Management functionality.

Documents used within the lab:

• cgroup-lab.odt
• cgroup-lab.pdf
• cGroups.odp

Understanding JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and SitePublisher

eXo Add-Ons for JBoss EPP: Collaboration, Social, Knowledge, Workflow, Document Management

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 will be released with a new Subscription Manager tool. This will tell users exactly what products are installed on the machine, the exact subscription that is providing updates to the machine and when that subscription expires. In addition, the subscription data is secure and enables authenticated connections to Red Hat’s new content delivery network (CDN). This new CDN will provide improved access to updates and errata.

In this session we will:

• Summarize the new Subscription Manager tooling
• Demonstrate the new functionality available at redhat.com
• Outline how the CDN works
• Describe how the subscription and product data is stored on the file system
• Discuss how system administrators can use this new data including integrating it with Assent Management Systems

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Learn how Red Hat views the competitive landscape around Red Hat Enterprise Linux and how to successfully navigate it. Unix-to-RHEL migrations have been a growth engine for Red Hat and its partners for many years, but as it continues to grow, competition intensifies. Get the latest insights on Oracle, Microsoft, Attachmate and others as well as how to win with Red Hat products.

In conjunction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat offers a portfolio of add-ons to extend the features of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription. Add-ons to Red Hat Enterprise Linux tailor your application environment to suit your specific computing requirements. With increased flexibility and choice, customers can deploy what they need, when they need it.
In this session, we will go through the various add-ons available and explain their purpose, as well as identifying cases where add-ons can provide a customer with additional value, giving partners the opportunity to upsell

Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a complete portfolio of security technologies with solutions for all facets of your system, data, and communications security challenges.

SELinux continues to introduce and improve innovative security capabilities.

• Greater coverage of system services by SELinux policies makes RHEL 6 more secure and resistant to security exploits, protecting system operation and data.
• SELinux sandboxing allows users to run untrusted applications safely and securely.

The new System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) provides centralized access to identity and authentication resources, and enables caching and offline support. SSSD presents a generalized interface to clients that need identity and authentication, and should be the service of choice for access to identity/authentication services across the enterprise.

This lab gives an overview of the enhancements in RHEL6, plus it offers some hands-on excercises.

In this presentation, various common mistakes are discussed. Red Hat shares some examples, and we'd like to gather some from you, if you will provide others from your team or other organizations that apply during the presentation.

One of the challenges of doing business the open source way is the balance of experience and expectations in your employees and shareholders. Accurately practicing the principles of open source requires diligence and patience. Sometimes other instincts and requirements cross the pathway of essential community principles.

Putting your community principles first in action and in risk analysis is essential to accurate practice of the open source way.

Ironically, even the best organizations are not always the best at what they do. Sometimes they break every rule in The Open Source Way.  In fact, every rule is being broken right now, somewhere inside of our favorite organizations.

A flash screencast of this presentation is available at: https://emea-partner-summit.com/content/open-source-way-done-wrong-0

For more information read http://www.theopensourceway.org and http://www.opensource.com.

You may also want to visit Matthias Stürmer's presentation "Doing the Impossible: Managing Open Source Communities" and watch

• my presentation "Comunities beyond Open Source" (video here)
• or the one from Jan Wildeboer "Introducing TOSW (The Open Source Way / Red Hat ecosystem)" from last year.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization extends the core KVM hypervisor technology that ships within Red Hat Enterprise Linux, adding a powerful management platform as well as supporting advanced features such as clustering, live migration, dynamic resource management, templates and snapshots.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for desktops delivers incredible hypervisor performance, including unmatched virtual machine density with a true local PC-like user experience, for both Linux and Windows desktops. Standard features such as bi-directional audio and video, complete USB data redirection and full-motion video playback deliver quantifiable cost savings of up to 70 percent, compared to the competition.

In this session, we will outline the high-level architecture of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, covering key technical features of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2

You can also experience the RHEV for Servers and VDI solutions live, by looking at the VDI setup we're using in our labs at Partner Summit. The lab infrastructure is powered by the Red Hat VDI solution, IBM servers and IGEL thin clients.