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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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10 out of 10
May 14, 2024
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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
Incentivized
We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for our server infrastructure for its lightweight and versatile builds with automation integration and solid security practices. It provides us a flexible and stable environment with a diverse range of capabilities to fill each niche situation that arises.
Utilizing satellite, idk, and Ansible AAP we are able to quick and efficiently deploy, manage, secure, and configure our environment within minutes.
  • Server infrastructure
  • Security profile
  • Automation
It’s about it to scale, manage, efficiency of resource utilization, flexibility, and automation platforms
May 09, 2024

RHEL Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is our main OS for developing software. It gives us consistency and across our development environment.
  • With RHEL, comes support that is helpful and will answer questions that we have
  • The patching process is simple and easy.
We use RHEL for all developing and infrastructure environments. It gives us the capabilities to secure our systems they that follows policies.
May 09, 2024

Specialist

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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I used the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in apps very critical for the bussines and is very easy used
  • Security
  • Easy
  • Flexibility
  • Finance
  • People
  • Authentic
It’s very used the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in the business because it’s secure and easy to work.
the coworker feels comfortable with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
when the system is emergency mode it’s very easy , come back to o.s. It’s no difficult and the apps works very well.
in the other the vulnerability it’s very quickly and de deployment with Ansible
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use RHEL primarily for Production-level workloads. We also use RHEL on physical and virtual workstations so developers can utilize and maintain their apps with a GUI. Our business problems include an environment heavily reliant on Linux, but end-users often do not have previous Linux experience. RHEL and the GNOME Desktop make it easy for the end-users to have a familiar-feeling environment.
  • Outstanding stability. Some air-gapped systems have been online for several months without any intervention.
  • Timely updates. Red Hat owns and supports RHEL, so package updates, including applicable errata, are released very quickly.
  • Amazing Package Manager. The DNF/yum package manager, along with the Red Hat AppStream and BaseOS repositories, features many up-to-date package versions and a wide variety of packages.
  • Other Software Integration & Compatibility with FIPS.
RHEL is excellent for environments that do not have any specific compliance requirements, as everything works great out of the box without any additional options being needed. However, if additional compliance options are required (such as PCI-DSS or HIPAA), there are many hardening options available out of the box. Some scenarios where RHEL would not be appropriate are for environments or organizations that heavily rely on DEB or APT packages, such as Ubuntu systems.
Paul Marquardt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use RHEL as a large-scale Desktop/Workstation Linux offering, serving scientists, engineers, developers, and cybersecurity researchers.
  • Availability of security, bugfix and feature updates
  • System stability and long-term support
  • Modular package design serving a large audience of users
  • Strong participation in the Open Source community
  • The desktop experience is not as good as other distributions
  • Sometimes patch updates break and required manual fix
RHEL desktop systems are an excellent solution for air-gapped networks due to Red Hat's patch management framework.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use RHEL as the main Linux distribution for production services and for all my development
  • Support
  • Documentation
  • Stabillity
  • Enterprise
  • Customization
  • Backwards compatibility
  • Support for legacy software
It is very well suited in production environment where stability is key.
Is is less suited for quick testing and prototyping.
May 08, 2024

RHEL is the bomb

Phil Heidrich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Rhel is our primary web infrastructure provider. tomcat, jboss, etc
RHEL gives us easy fast secure web platform
  • fast, serves web pages very quickly
  • secure, patch is easy and repeatable
  • orchestration is quick
  • disk managment I/o flexibility
  • 3rd party driver implementation
  • leaappp upgrade is not exactly easy
it is way more faster and more efficient for deploy anything. it works well and we have begun to roll out for workstation
February 26, 2024

Redhat RHEL Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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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 to manage, I won't mention the name, but a very large casino that has a mix of AIX and RHEL involved. And all the stuff that we typically use are more the backend functioning, regulatory, that sort of thing. So our job is to make sure they're up and running and doing what they need to do. If the regulators aren't happy, people can't do business. It's relatively inexpensive versus the traditional, which would be AIX or other UNIX systems that have been around forever. They can fit in niches, really small. The ability to work with some of the open source, all of them have that ability now, but RHEL it's certainly more integrated and it's actually just a very easy configurable functional OS that can do a lot and we can roll them out as we need.
  • Runs applications pretty well. It's quite configurable. I'm trying to think of specifics. She works with automation very, very well. Some of the vulnerability fixes and so forth. The way it's integrated within the whole entire Red Hat ecosystem, works pretty well too. So there's rolling out the software and the things that they're given in other OSS, there's a whole lot of hoops you got to go through RHEL, it's not there. So I hope that was specific enough.
  • From an automation perspective. RHEL is really moving forward, but some of their ideas are still not ideas, but their implementations of it still feel half-baked, like the functionality's there, but it's not the kind of functionality that to me makes it a full-on solution with OpenShift in particular as we're bringing this in and we're getting more into containers because it's more important for the banking industry and other industries. Justice General, well you can do this by script and we don't have an interface for this and sort of things sort of like that. I'm trying to think if there's anything else that RHEL does that bothers me as a general rule.
Where it's very well suited is just if you're rolling out systems quickly, web front ends, and so forth. I think it's really well suited for that. Even backend operations. It does a good job. However, I do think that it's not as industrial-proven as other operating systems out there. Like say the banking industry, they love AIX, cause it's IBM, it's been around forever and it's rock solid. And to try to get that much computing power in an intel box is difficult. So RHEL is limited in what it can do versus some of the P series and I series stuff that IBM does.
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
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 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has been selected as the operating system of choice for our business critical development servers. With its reputation for stability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux was the obvious choice to support our business critical applications. Coupled with professional technical support and services, RHEL has been both reliable and stable in our deployment.
  • Stability. RHEL is well recognized for its stability while maintaining good support for necessary security patches.
  • Support. Unlike many free Linux distributions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is run like a true first-class enterprise offering, with professional support.
  • Latest Features. By nature of it offering such strong stability, RHEL is often slow to offer newer packages, favoring stability over newness.
  • Price. All of the stability and support comes at a cost, and it can't compete when you don't need the added support.
As I've discussed previously, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is really well suited to environments where one requires near absolute stability. RHEL's reputation for extensive uptime is well deserved, and if you're hosting an enterprise application on a RHEL server, it's unlikely that the operating system will be a source of instability.

You should avoid RHEL if you're looking for a Linux development environment, as you'll not be satisfied with the speed of package updating, nor the daily user interface.
Chris Saenz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
RHEL is one of the primary operating systems that we implement at our organization. It's a major Linux distribution that is supported by Red Hat for enterprise customers. We use it when an application requires Linux or our users prefer RHEL to host their application. When users prefer RHEL, it is typically the first or only Linux distribution that is compatible.
  • Stable OS.
  • Release security patches quickly.
  • Compatible with many third-party applications.
  • Support has been hit or miss
RHEL is a rock-solid server for some essential network services, such as NFS, DNS, SMTP, Apache, Tomcat, etc., in addition to running third-party applications. It may not as well suited for things like DHCP because of the lack of active directory integration. Also, if users are used to NTFS permissions backed by a domain, then running as a file share may not be as beneficial as running a Windows CIFS server.
Holman Cárdenas, M.Eng, TOGAF®, ITIL® | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
This should be your first choice if you are thinking about using Linux mission-critical servers and/or Oracle databases. Price could be a con if you are a small or budget-restricted company starting operations (in that case I would recommend you CentOS because it is free and in case you don't mind searching in the community when you'd need support).
October 22, 2019

RHEL is worth using

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
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.
It's suited for data center and voice that needs to be very secure and robust. If basic user level changes are required, then Linux fails since it's not very user-friendly for the layman.
Ryan Payne | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the operating system of choice on which many of our major enterprise applications are running. It provides an efficient stable platform for major technology systems across the enterprise.
  • Stable and efficient OS
  • Addresses critical vulnerabilities quickly
  • Familiar command structure for technical resources
  • Task scheduling ease of use
  • Shared mounting protocol support
  • Third party services support
Very suitable for running large scale applications in a datacenter environment. Smaller applications or distributed systems are better suited for Windows or other Linux offerings. The manageability and scalability benefits do not outweigh the cost for these types of deployments.
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