Red Hat Enterprise Linux Review
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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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What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Technical Details
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February 01, 2019
Great OS for ERP Solutions
We are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on our physical database servers and virtual application servers. Our infrastructure supports an ERP solution. We had a couple of choices based on what the ERP supports, and we decided to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux to host our database, applications, and backup infrastructure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is quite affordable and very well suited for enterprise solutions. Plenty of online resources are available if you ever run into issues.
- Support for multiple shell environments. It supports most of the popular shell environments and lets you create shell scripts for your backend tasks.
- It comes with nice out of the box features for OS level performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
- RHEL has a great support forum. If you ever need technical help, the forum is extremely useful.
- While some of the other Linux distributions like OpenSuse have greatly improved user experience and GUI, I think RHEL mostly prefers terminal over GUI.
- RHEL has been very resource efficient solution for our infrastructure.
- The OS patching process is quite smooth, especially if you use utilities like Katello to patch RHEL in bulk. This has been quite helpful since we have only 2 system administrators who are taking care of quarterly patching of more than 200 servers running RHEL.
We used Windows Server. It has not been very painful but when I compare it with RHEL the patching process was lengthy. We also ran into occasional performance issues that were not very straight forward to diagnose.
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- Prior Experience with the Product
Prior experience with the product was the single most important reason why we chose RHEL. We have been using RHEL for more than eight years now and have not had any situation where we regretted choosing RHEL over other options we had.
We are very pleased with the product and would not change anything in our selection process.
- User administration
- OS level performance monitoring
- Package installation and upgrade
- Managing multi-version libraries is particularly difficult. Especially, if you need both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the library.