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# RHEL7 Release Notes Highlights

**URL:** https://crunchtools.com/rhel7-release-notes-highlights/
Date: 2014-05-14
Author: fatherlinux
Post Type: post
Summary: I just finished going through the release notes for RHEL7 Release Candidate and Technical Notes… Features Fast Block Devices Caching Slower Block Devices Systemd controls cgroups Hardware Event Reporting Mechanism (HERM) RAS Daemon: Unifies all error data & reporting Live migration of a guest from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 host to the RedContinue Reading "RHEL7 Release Notes Highlights" →
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I just finished going through the release notes for [RHEL7 Release Candidate](https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/7.0_Release_Notes/index.html) and [Technical Notes](https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/7.0_Technical_Notes/index.html)...

##  Features 

	- Fast Block Devices Caching Slower Block Devices

	- Systemd controls cgroups

	- Hardware Event Reporting Mechanism (HERM)

	- RAS Daemon: Unifies all error data & reporting

 	- Live migration of a guest from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 host to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta host is supported

	- Anaconda features a new text mode that works on IBM S/390, typewriter terminals, and which can also be used write-only 

	- OpenLMI support

	- Backup/Restore for IPA

	- Replaces rgmanager with Pacemaker

	- The Pacemaker Configuration System, or pcs, replaces ccs, ricci and luci as the unified cluster configuration and administration tool

##  Depricated & Removed Packages

	- Depricated: sendmail, ext2, ext3, rhn support, libcgroup

	- Removed:  32 Bit, POWER6, Some system-config-, prelink, busybox

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