Oracle has announced the initial beta release of Oracle Linux 7.0, which is built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources. Some key enhancements in Oracle Linux 7 include support for volumes up to 500TB with XFS filesystem, 50TB volumes with ext4 filesystem, improved support for large storage arrays, and new tools for managing heterogeneous storage. The document provides step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring Oracle Linux 7 in a VMware virtual machine.

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Oracle has announced that the initial beta build of Oracle Linux 7.0,a distribution built from source for
Red Hat and enhanced with an "unbreakable" Linux kernel and now it's Ready for your Testing.
 RHEL 7 Will now format drives with the XFS filesystem by default.
 Enabling volumes of up to 500TB in size.
 If you prefer the older ext4 filesystem it's now supports 50TB volumes.
 Improves support for large-scale enterprise storage arrays.
 Provides new tools for managing heterogeneous storage.
 New Version of SAMBA 4.1.
Software’s:-
 Oracle Linux  You can download it from here.
 Any Virtualization Software such as ( Vmware, Virtual Box, KVM … )

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First How to Prepare Vmware :-

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CPU:-

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Memory :-

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Network :-

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Disk Space ( that will be allocated for Linux ) :-

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Linux Part :-

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Press here if you would like to create Disk
Partitions, New File system type has been
added.

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Press Here
To Set Root
Password

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