RHEL 7.3 hits the shelves Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 this week. The update targets the same mission‑critical workloads that kept RHEL dominant while adding concrete capa…

The press release lists a laundry list of enhancements: lightweight tunnels for more secure guest networking, bulk‑packet memory allocator improvements for 40 Gb and 100 Gb NICs, and expanded support for non‑volatile …

Performance tweaks that matter Enterprise networking has moved beyond gigabit Ethernet. RHEL 7.3 adds a lightweight tunnel driver that lets virtual machines encrypt traffic without the overhead of full‑blown VPNs. The…

The bulk‑packet memory allocator, meanwhile, now handles 40 Gb and 100 Gb Ethernet frames more efficiently. In practice that means higher throughput on modern data‑center switches and less CPU time spent shuffling buf…