Item: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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.

Return on Investment

We can get things rolled out very quickly and in a hybrid cloud environment for the tool systems, that's really important. And once we go to OpenShift, then we're going to start doing bare metal deploys. I'm assuming that its track record's going to stay because you need reliability and you need something that's going to be able to handle what you're going to give it. So that's an assumption on my part.

Alternatives Considered

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

IBM AIX

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Redhat RHEL Review

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)