Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Features

This table lists the availability of various features on native Red Hat Enterprise Linux clients (without Expanded Support).

The operating system you run on a client is supported by the organization that supplies the operating system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is supported by Red Hat.

The icons in this table indicate:

the feature is available on both Salt and traditional clients
the feature is not available
the feature is under consideration, and may or may not be made available at a later date
Traditional the feature is supported only on traditional clients
Salt the feature is supported only on Salt clients.

Table 1. Supported Features on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems
Feature	RHEL 6	RHEL 7	RHEL 8
Client			Salt
System packages	Red Hat	Red Hat	Red Hat
Registration			Salt
Install packages			Salt
Apply patches			Salt
Remote commands			Salt
System package states	Salt	Salt	Salt
System custom states	Salt	Salt	Salt
Group custom states	Salt	Salt	Salt
Organization custom states	Salt	Salt	Salt
System set manager (SSM)	Salt	Salt	Salt
Service pack migration	N/A	N/A	N/A
Basic Virtual Guest Management	Traditional		Salt
Advanced Virtual Guest Management		Salt	Salt
Virtual Guest Installation (Kickstart), as Host OS	Traditional	Traditional
Virtual Guest Installation (image template), as Host OS	Traditional		Salt
System deployment (PXE/Kickstart)			Salt
System redeployment (Kickstart)	Traditional		Salt
Contact methods	Traditional: OSAD, RHNSD, SSH-push. Salt: ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH	Traditional: OSAD, RHNSD, SSH-push. Salt: ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH	Salt: ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH
Works with SUSE Manager Proxy			Salt
Action chains			Salt
Software crash reporting		Traditional
Staging (pre-download of packages)			Salt
Duplicate package reporting			Salt
CVE auditing			Salt
SCAP auditing			Salt
Package verification	Traditional	Traditional
Package locking	Traditional	Traditional
System locking	Traditional	Traditional
Maintenance Windows
System snapshot	Traditional	Traditional
Configuration file management			Salt
Snapshots and profiles	Traditional. Salt: Profiles supported, Sync not supported	Traditional. Salt: Profiles supported, Sync not supported	Salt: Profiles supported, Sync not supported
Power management			Salt
Monitoring	Salt	Salt	Salt
Docker buildhost
Build Docker image with OS
Kiwi buildhost
Build Kiwi image with OS
Recurring Actions	Salt	Salt	Salt
AppStreams	N/A	N/A
Yomi	N/A	N/A	N/A

Virtual Guest Management:

In this table, virtual guest management is split into basic and advanced.

Basic virtual guest management includes listing VMs, slow refresh, VM lifecycle actions (start, stop, resume, pause), and modifying VM vCPU and Memory.

Advanced virtual guest management includes fast refresh, VM lifecycle actions (delete, reset, power off), modifying VM disk, network, graphical display, and graphical display configuration.