Great OS for ERP Solutions
February 01, 2019

Great OS for ERP Solutions

Ravinder Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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.
RHEL is very well suited for enterprise solutions. It works great both on physical and virtual infrastructure. It definitely requires users to have a good level of shell programming knowledge, especially if you are going to administer the OS.

Evaluating Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Competitors

  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • 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.

Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

RHEL has most of the features that are required by an ERP solution. If you need any additional packages, RHEL has a great repository and a very easy package installation/upgrade process.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • 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.