Implementing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on HP ProLiant servers

Technical white paper | Implementing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on HP ProLiant servers
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Processor Clocking Control (PCC) Interface Specification
HP ProLiant Server Power Management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x white paper:
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Fully-integrated virtualization using KVM hypervisor technology
Linux kernel PCC (pcc-cpufreq) driver documentation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 provides fully integrated kernel-based virtualization services by incorporating the KVM
hypervisor into the kernel. This allows for consistency across the physical and virtual systems. Virtualized KVM guests can
be run as managed services, enabling failover (including between physical and virtual hosts). For more information about
KVM, see the Red Hat website:
New utility provides consistent, informative device naming for network interfaces
http://www.redhat.com
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 introduces the biosdevname utility, which enables consistent device naming for network
interfaces. Traditionally, network interfaces in Linux are named ethn (such as eth0); as such, modern server platforms
with multiple network adapters often present non-deterministic and counterintuitive naming of these network interfaces. In
many cases, the names do not correspond to actual labels on the chassis. In contrast, the biosdevname utility assigns
names to network interfaces based on their physical location. The names are more directive and intuitive.
The biosdevname utility is disabled by default; you must select it during installation. Prior to enabling biosdevname and
adopting the new naming convention, you should carefully evaluate your needs and the effect that the new network device
nomenclature will have on your existing environments. For more information about biosdevname, see the
Linux NIC
Enumeration on HP ProLiant Gen8 Servers white paper.
Recommended ProLiant server platforms
The following tables list the minimum system, storage, and virtualization memory requirements (as determined by Red Hat)
for installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Minimum system requirements
Table 1. Memory requirements
I386, AMD64/Intel64
Minimum 1 GB per logical CPU
Recommended 2 GB
Table 2. Storage requirements
I386, AMD64/Intel64
Minimum 1 GB
Recommended 5 GB
Table 3. Virtualization memory requirements (per guest)
I386, AMD64/Intel64
Minimum 1 GB per logical CPU
Recommended 64 GB
Networking requirements
FCoE
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 provides new support for software Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).