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.
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May 24, 2023
I'm happy using RHEL!
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.
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
May 24, 2023
my review.
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.
May 23, 2023
RED HAT
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
May 23, 2023
RHEL Review
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
January 14, 2022
Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The operating system is used in the company. The system is really stable and scalable. It's supported by a robust company that creates the upgrades and vulnerability patches for the releases and applications and this helps to narrow the bridge between the new software compared with other operating systems. RHEL has also many applications on top of the operating system which easy the configuration as a platform integrated with different packages and software that help to ease, manage and scale the configurations of the System. RHEL also is increasing the portfolio of the RHEL with applications such as containers, Ansible, JBoss, and others to have a robust product that can be configured in a single system. The levels of support and the cost of subscription are also competitive for the use of the technology and the IT costs of today.
- Excellent delivery of patches, upgrades, and solutions for vulnerabilities.
- Excellent support
- Competitive prices for today's IT
- It doesn't have another boot environment, like Solaris (BE) or AIX. This will help upgrade O.S. in physical hardware.
- Training courses, documentation and certification is expensive
- Personalized solutions are lacking and high cost which is joined to expensive training makes some products and configurations less attractive than for example AWS.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is used across the whole organization for our servers, mainly for the mission-critical environments running Oracle DB. It provides an efficient, secure and stable platform we are happy with.
- Quick turnaround time on security releases.
- Reliable OS providing a strong environnement.
- Excellent support through the RHEL site.
- Complex upgrade policies between major versions.
- Hardware compatibility.
- Cost.
October 22, 2019
RHEL is worth using
It's been used by my organization and we support the product which is robust and secure. It's easy to understand and helpful in troubleshooting issues with different trees assigned for each function.
- It is very secure where root access is the only option to make any major changes, and profiles and roles have been defined to assign user-level access to different directories.
- During troubleshooting it's easy to fix one since each feature has its own directory to look for and it's easy to point to the issue.
- Vulnerabilities are fixed with easy patch creation which fixed the issue quickly and without affecting the other working features.
- Graphical representation has to be more user-friendly.
- Layman should be able to understand the directory and work on the feature enablement and disablement in Linux.
Currently, RHEL is deployed on a legacy blade server (Dell Poweredge 1950) for testing Redmine project management system to track research projects, as well as to test the defectiveness of Redmine in replacing our current production ticketing system.
In Addition to Redmine, we also use Cockpit on RHEL (in our test/development), which functions as a makeshift NOC
In Addition to Redmine, we also use Cockpit on RHEL (in our test/development), which functions as a makeshift NOC
- Stability
- Admin workflows
- Will boot on hardware that other systems may not boot on (especially on legacy systems)
- Upgrading
- RPM is getting old
- I'd like to see RHEL move away from rpms, and use a faster system such as apt
March 02, 2018
RHEL - still one of the best!!
RHEL provides the flexibility and stability required for the implementation of a company-wide application used in the processing of data retrieved from several databases hosted in Oracle. By using RHEL we were able to implement a custom solution, built upon PostgreSQL and RedHat's Jboss, which allowed the automated conversion of the Oracle data into one usable by other applications. RHEL allowed us to implement:
1. An extremely stable system which can best be described as "power on and leave alone"
2. Custom scripts for monitoring both the OS and application
1. An extremely stable system which can best be described as "power on and leave alone"
2. Custom scripts for monitoring both the OS and application
- Very well thought out package manager, that not only installs the software you want but also the prerequisites when necessary.
- Excellent support through the RHEL site and the overall community
- Straightforward installation with easy to follow menus and guides
- Licensing is thoroughly explained and with full instructions on how to apply for new and renewed licenses
- While the command line installation runs well, the desktop GUI tends to be resource intensive at times
- The GUI based install menu does not scale well at times resulting in some menu options spilling offscreen
- By default a menu based network manager should be included, from my experience particularly with the minimal install, this was not the case resulting in me editing the configuration file directly. Additionally, network tools should also be installed by default.