Red Hat Enterprise Linux Review
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
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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We primarily started using it to help with the ECS deployment, the new VMs, and patching. So we have playbooks that focus on keeping our …
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Right now, primarily, we're using it to support a tools infrastructure for a hybrid cloud solution for our company itself. We also use it …
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So in our organization, we use RHEL for many things. For example, my team uses it as an image builder for AP. We use it as a file …
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review
We build high-performance computing clusters and we use RHEL as the OS of choice. Compliance is a big one. And then updates and stability. …
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review
We use it as the base for a lot of our applications and our student registration systems. I use it personally as a base for a lot of our …
All in with Red Hat Enterprise Linux !
10 out of 10
June 09, 2023
We currently use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as our OS of choice for all workloads. Red Hat Enterprise Linux addresses all aspect we require …
Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the OS distribution of choice
RHEL is what we use for all Linux based applications, running in approximately 1000 systems, both bare metal and VMs. Standardization on a …
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I'm happy using RHEL!
System administration and dev/ops.
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Operating System of choice for scalable digital services. When it comes to a digital transformation the underlying platforms here are all …
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can't go wrong
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 …
I'm happy using Red Hat Enterprise Linux!
We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux in our mission critical environments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the way to go. It just makes sense.
Multiple applications, including Oracle, Cloverleaf, Java, MQ, web servers, etc.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux tops the rest.
We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift to run business process workloads and to develop on.
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- For us, it's going to be the deployment and the patching. It does a good job because you can put your no reboot tags and things like that because work...
- I've heard issues about the manifest sinking can be a pain sometimes and when you're going from an older to a newer version, sometimes the manifests c...
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Administrator in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
We build high-performance computing clusters and we use RHEL as the OS of choice. Compliance is a big one. And then updates and stability. Generally a good product.
- Documentation is good. There's a lot of troubleshooting, there are a lot of examples. I think that's good. There's a lot of help around compliance and security issues.
- Use. Licensing. Licensing in the Red Hat portal is very, very difficult. It's very hard to track our licenses and make sure that we get them done correctly and we don't want to use the satellite server. Yeah, so that's it.
It's well suited for installing pretty much anywhere and it's usually the documentation is very good and there's a lot of support from the documentation and training to make good use of the product. It's not as good as a workstation, it's better as a server product. It's not necessarily good in kind of other situations as well because of some of the licensing constraints.
May 24, 2023
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can't go wrong
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
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.
Verified User
Manager in Sales
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
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.
May 24, 2023
Red Hat in the legal environment
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
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Verified User
Account Manager in Information Technology
Aviation & Aerospace Company, 10,001+ employees
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
March 21, 2022
Easy maintenance
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is used in the servers of the clients that we serve at TCS Ecuador for transactional applications. We have not presented commercial problems at the moment since there is a maintenance contract and the updates are carried out on a scheduled basis twice a year.
- There are no additional costs for any of the software or content we make available through the program
- It do not disabled any features that must be enable with a paid subscription
- Deployment simplicity
- Facilitate the synchronization of internal patch repositories
This is highly recommended to support servers to transactional applications.
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Retail Company, 10,001+ employees
We use RHEL 7 across our whole organization. It's a rock-solid, well-supported operating system that is our OS of choice when it comes to Linux. It's used by multiple departments to address multiple problems, from security to database to logging. It's very easy to maintain and support, and it's also very secure.
- Secure. It's secure by default, and you can harden it even further.
- Supported. Support from Red Hat is excellent.
- AWS licensing model isn't great, that needs some work.
- Updating needs some work to get set up properly.
If you're running Linux in the enterprise, Red Hat should be your first choice. It's well-supported and third-party products for Linux will be designed to work with Red Hat. They may behave differently and less stably under other Linux operating systems—McAfee, I'm looking at you here! If the question is "Will x work with this flavor of Linux?", with Red Hat, the answer is always a Yes.
December 09, 2019
The most stable Linux Distro
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Hardware Company, 10,001+ employees
All our machines and servers are established as RHEL. It is being extensively used by our company as an alternative to CENTOS (which is basically an unsupported version of the same) mainly because of the stability that it provides and the amazing customer service that Red Hat has to offer its customers.
- Stability
- Cleaner Software updates
- Robust
- The license is expensive
The amazing thing about Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as I keep on telling everyone I meet, is the stability it provides. I haven't restarted my Red Hat server in the last 18 months, and I am not planning to do so anytime soon, unless met with a power outage.
If you are a company running a service 24/7, I haven't seen any linux distro more stable than Red Hat.
If you are a company running a service 24/7, I haven't seen any linux distro more stable than Red Hat.
March 02, 2018
RHEL - still one of the best!!
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 501-1000 employees
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.
As an OS, RHEL can be implemented as a user OS and Server OS. the features and customization make its uses almost limitless. two areas in which the OS shine would be:
1. Automated systems in which a minimal OS is required and user intervention is limited
2. Hosting of sensitive information either as a file or web server. The extensive security features and customization allow admins to tweak the OS as needed, allowing unprecedented control.
1. Automated systems in which a minimal OS is required and user intervention is limited
2. Hosting of sensitive information either as a file or web server. The extensive security features and customization allow admins to tweak the OS as needed, allowing unprecedented control.