A tech savvy review on RHEL
December 13, 2021

A tech savvy review on RHEL

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Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

[Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) is the base platform for all our Linux infrastructure, we use it for databases, web servers, application services and a lot more standard services like DNS, DHCP, proxy and so on. It helps us to achieve a high availability environment where service uptime is critical to our bussines.

Pros

  • It has a really easy way to fix security issues, just "yum update" and you're ready
  • [ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) is widely supported by vendors, so there's no need to compile drivers, modules, or applications from source to have a ready-to-use solution
  • The way [ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) is supported help us to have a long server lifecycle (10 years), which simplify a lot our compliance-

Cons

  • [ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) should be more flexible with mount point, it is common to see a stuck server during booting because [of] a missing non-essential disk/volume/partition, it should at least permit (if possible) a remote (ssh) login to see what happened.
  • In my experience, cluster file systems provided by Red Hat are prone to fail, I've sent this situation more than not in my career.
  • [ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) shouldn't have taken over CentOS, I believe CentOS was the way into[ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) and now this road is closed.
  • Support
  • Resilency
  • Security
  • Stability
  • Maturity
  • It has allowed us to provide a strong 7x24 IT platform
  • It allowed us to have a homogeneus Linux environment
  • [ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) let us achieve service levels that other vendors couldn't
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has wider vendor support for enterprise applications. Also, [ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) provides a better life cycle management than SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Ubuntu Linux. In addition, by using [ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) we are able to find more candidates for employment since is the leading enterprise Linux provider of the whole Linux ecosystem.

Do you think Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) again?

Yes

[ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) is a great suite for almost everything Linux and has a great ecosystem free Open Source of third party repositories to find what is not provided by default. ... an environment where 24x7 support is required, their support level is awesome, environments with a lot of vendor dependent applications, since almost all of them build their apps for [ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL). [ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) could improve: SAP environments, I've compared its integration levels to other Linux vendors and it could be better. Mainframe (390) solutions. Although [ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) support for System Z is great, I believe SUSE's is better.

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