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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.

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9 out of 10
May 24, 2023
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Admin for USE Linux servers. Running various applications on-prem and in the cloud. Currently working toward SAP deployment. Approx 400 …
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What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.


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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We currently use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as our OS of choice for all workloads. Red Hat Enterprise Linux addresses all aspect we require such as high availability, stability, performance, latency etc.
  • Stability
  • Performance
  • High Availabilty
  • We currently have no issues and are quire happy with RHEL
Stability and performance are top-notch and if any issues are encountered their support is also excellent
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
RHEL is what we use for all Linux based applications, running in approximately 1000 systems, both bare metal and VMs. Standardization on a single distribution backed up by enterprise class support solves a lot of problems in our organization. It also improves the security posture and overall stability of our production environments.
  • Security
  • Stability
  • Availability of the most up to date releases of the general population of the packages. Though it is better these days than it was a few years ago.
  • Cockpit is a good idea, but it is lacking API option, which could be an invaluable feature to have.
Critical production environments are the best for RHEL case as the product ensures the security, stability and it is backed by the world class support that the most of the companies (and their shareholders) would appreciate.
It might not be too suitable for the startups or even some Dev teams within large enterprises, depending on their internal culture and practices. Though things definitely improved over the last few years and there is no strong case for the teams not to use RHEL nowadays.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
System administration and dev/ops.
  • System resource management. Software doesn't over use hardware resources and bad behaved software generally doesn't crash other software.
  • Software development. Easy to install many languages and write and compile code in those languages.
  • Device communication. Its easy to get and use drivers that communicate with serial, or networked, etc. devices.
  • It could be easier to determine dependencies of some packages and find the dependent packages.
  • It could be easier to configure some of the packages that are configured in the GUI, from the command line, like nmcli.
In my opinion RHEL is extremely capable for most all work done. Maybe not as easy for some office type applications but still very capable.
May 24, 2023

RHEL Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Operating System of choice for scalable digital services. When it comes to a digital transformation the underlying platforms here are all Linux which allows for the deployment of the supporting apps and infra.
  • stability :)
  • patching
  • install packages
  • restart quick
  • live kernel patching?
Stable operating system. Easy to support at scale
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it throughout most of our infrastructure. For now, we mostly use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and starting to explore Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
  • Responds with security findings fast
  • Simple to install
  • Ease of use
  • Keep current update model but also include options for a monthly consolidated update
Unless you're tied to a specific OS for the app, there is no reason why you wouldn't want to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux in our mission critical environments.
  • OS
  • Automation
  • Cloud
  • Collaboration
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Integration with other products
We use it as our primary OS and replacement OS for Microsoft.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Multiple applications, including Oracle, Cloverleaf, Java, MQ, web servers, etc.
  • It is well documented and supported
  • It is a leading OS, and therefore has a great user community
  • Wide variety of apps and app vendors
  • Maybe a native GUI - not on the console - for my Windows users (who think the whole world should be like Windows)
  • There is really not much that Red Hat Enterprise Linux does badly
Well suited for those who are network savvy. And for those who like CLIs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift to run business process workloads and to develop on.
  • Stable work environment
  • Constantly improving and adding new offerings to make it more useful
  • Open source driven community
  • Security features for containers and orchestration are limited in run time
  • It is not always clear when new features/components are being delivered
Development environment for developing microservices based solutions. The orchestration to carry new applications from development to production deployment.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Cloud-based Virtual Machines and to deploy large OLTP solutions in highly performant, highly reliable configurations. Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports workloads for SAP, Oracle and other large scale databases for customers and application providers.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP/HANA and SAP Applications
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux with High Availability for NFS file system workloads
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Enterprise MSSQL with Regional Failover
  • Security update process for packages including in core
  • Support for non-standard integrations where there is significant market opportunity
  • Support for BTRFS
Workloads on public cloud where customers require reliability and supportability for applications and targeted hardware for multiple years.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use RHEL for our servers & satellites to manage it. We use Ansible as well to patch our servers monthly over all the environments & we are planning to use AAP in the future to be more precise.
  • Server Management.
  • Patching
  • Updates
  • Content View Improvement.
  • Syncing the CVs.
  • Getting Published for CVs.
It's very useful for our Linux servers.
May 24, 2023

my review.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Admin for USE Linux servers. Running various applications on-prem and in the cloud. Currently working toward SAP deployment. Approx 400 servers across all platforms. Dell Boomi, JMS, Satellite, and Ansible, are some of the apps that come to mind. Can't think of any problems at the moment. We automate builds and get them to app owners to do their thing.
  • security
  • reliability
  • compatibility
  • Command changes.
  • More and more tools make things more complex, even though they are meant to ease things.
Large scalable environments. Currently working toward SAP setup. Things have been stable so far. Uptime is great, aside from normal patching reboots. The only thing I can think of where Rhel wouldn't be too great is a workstation. Works well for most things, but I've found a few tools that there isn't a Linux port for.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use RHEL to host various applications for distance education and classroom technologies. It is a well supported and reliable platform to host a variety of web applications.
  • Reliability
  • Well supported and documented
A strong, reliable system for web site and web application hosting.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have our own private cloud and we use RHEL as our standard SO. We have a team with about 10 engineers who are supporting and updating them. We use RHEL because it gives us security when setting up our services. We try to standardize our DC and work as much as possible with RHEL due to its ease of use, its support and the information that is found is very useful when running into a problem.
  • Support
  • Permits automation
  • Security
  • Update
  • Support
We use RHEL because it gives us security when setting up our services. We try to standardize our DC and work as much as possible with RHEL due to its ease of use, its support and the information that is found is very useful when running into a problem. I'm happy using RHEL.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Red Hat to develop products purchased by the government. We use it to run docker/podman and k8/k3s with the things we are innovating. it is used to build automation to make tasks easier to manage. it allows us to standardize the way I manage the environment across multiple networks.
  • It is very easy to make system changes in the command line compared to other operating systems.
  • It is easy to automate the processes to make system changes.
  • its extremely malleable which makes it easy to meet my requirements.
  • it can be difficult to find dependencies since i work mostly in classified spaces.
  • it can be difficult to use things like pam
  • it is hard to get a kickstart to work easily in the classified space
I have had a very easy time imaging RHEL machines and getting them to the state i desire. I find pam very confusing and how to make changes that are required in the classified environments. it would be nice if there were an easier way to see required dependencies to prevent me walking back and forth multiple times to complete one install.
May 24, 2023

Newbie to RHEL

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
RHEL is used to house some of our robust applications that need high availability. Some of the business problems RHEL addresses is stability and security.
  • RHEL is highly available
  • More secure than other linux systems
  • Downloading RPMs for installation
  • How the firewall on the server is used with internal firewall
  • Combine all contracts with one subscriptions
Installing and configuring RHEL has been an ease to learn and execute. Most of the applications that I run requires linux or unix, which RHEL is my companies choice because of it reputation and the resources it provides.
May 24, 2023

RHEL Just Runs

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the defacto-standard platform for new workloads running both on-premise and in multiple public clouds. We deploy both critical enterprise applications, as well as edge location workloads on RHEL.
  • Install & Configuration
  • Management and Automation
  • Community Contribution
  • Availability of newer versions of packages
  • Wider selection of packages
  • Automation of AD integration
RHEL is well-suited for applications where stability and security are critical, as well as where the ability to scale it and still manage efficiently is crucial.

It is less well-suited for environments where there are individual, specific requirements, where newer versions of libraries and applications are required, and particularly in migration of legacy .Net applications.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Red Hat is the most used operating system for our software development team. We currently develop around 5 products that are used across the company, and after the announcement of CentOS changing their code we moved most of our servers to Red Hat 7. We are currently looking to convert more of the legacy servers to Red Hat.
  • Security
  • Stability
  • Ease of configuration and troubleshooting
  • Subscription Services
  • Integrations with Windows Domain controllers
  • SSO
I think based on experience the stability the ease of patching and troubleshooting it is suitable for any application development. Less suitable when it involves integration with other windows servers for implementations such as SQL or other instances since the configuration seems complicated for most Windows users, command line most of the time is intimidating.
May 23, 2023

RED HAT

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Close to 5000+ servers running on Red Hat Linux and planing to move to Containersation platform to reduce the hardware scalability
  • Scalability
  • Compliance and Patch management
  • Cost reduction
  • Automated way of patching and compliance, we know its already available with Ansible but thinking lot of space to add additional features
  • Migration to newer version from old EOL systems makes easier adoption of Red Hat Linux
  • Expecting more of contianersation and scalable env for new technolgy business applications
For large and small scale applications which limited CPU usages works level but Red Hat need to develop think for DB based systems to make sure they run without any performance degrade
May 23, 2023

RHEL Review

BHANUCHANDRA KOMMALAPATI | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using RHEL as major OS for our Linux Infra . we are focusing more in containterzion on Red Hat servers
  • No hardware specific and runs on any Physical and virtual infra
  • Easy to get vendor assistance
  • More Secure and manageble
  • docker
  • docker images
  • Performance
we are using Red Hat among 8K servers and patching is very fun for us :)
May 23, 2023

Love this product

James Pierce, CDCTP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
All of our source code and engineering is based off of RHEL. We have a team of 6 Linux Engineers who administrate for the whole company. We use multiple Linux products to complete our tasks and projects. We use the Red Hat ticketing portal when we need additional help troubleshooting problems that we run into.
  • manages services
  • manages networking
  • documentation
  • More hands on troubleshooting in the ticketing system
RHEL provides the tuning needed for our needs. We are able to use the repositories provided to satisfy most if not all of our customers' needs. We are able to provide solutions to our end users who didn't know they were even available.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The majority of our production servers run on RHEL7 and RHEL8. Our data collection apps run on these servers allowing us to capture large sets of data for analyst to analyze.
  • It's extremely stable
  • It's easy to automate/manage
  • Easily scalable
  • I'd like to see more python libraries packaged with the base OS.
  • More frequent feature releases.
  • Not specific to RHEL, but it would be helpful if there were more Red Hat Ansible playbooks for compliance automation available on GitHub.
We have a combination of Windows and Linux in our organization. The Windows systems are to provide support to the RHEL systems, such as Active Directory, File/Print servers etc. We've been replacing as many of the Windows systems with RHEL as we can due to the fact RHEL is just easier to manage, it's more stable, and it's far easier to automate. We fight with automation on Windows and configuration drift on Windows is a challenge. We don't have these issues with RHEL, and using ansible on RHEL is just inherent.
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