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RedHat RHEL Review
February 26, 2024

RedHat RHEL Review

Dominic Charbonneau | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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 synchronization server, as a file server for our AP environment as well as web servers and many other use cases. We have over, I believe, 15,000 rail servers. One of our problems was that I'm talking about my automation team for AP, we had some issues getting all of our files for agents in the same place and being reliable. So we built a RHEL server for all the files and built an Ansible playbook to synchronize between OpenShift pods.
  • The file server is pretty efficient. The SMB package patching is very efficient as well. There's no need to reboot. There's a much more better throughput than on Windows and it's mandatory for building execution environments for Ansible. And does that pretty well.
  • We need to use a specific package for antivirus from a third party and it is very complex to automate because we need to change the boot settings of the machine. If there was a way to change the boot configuration from inside the machine, just reboot instead of doing it from the kernel level, it would be very efficient. But that's a very specific use case that's not common and might not even happen in real-time.
  • Based on the general servers we have in the throughput they provide, I would say it's very positive.
The biggest thing about RHEL that makes it stand out for enterprise users is the support that we get from the vendor. Whereas with the other ones, you're basically left on your own. There's no official repo, there's no satellite for patching. You're very left on your own with the community.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

Yes

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

Yes

Like I said before, with the automation environment RHEL is well suited to run the Ansible Navigator and the Ansible execution environment builder. So we can create our execution environment on RHEL natively instead of having to figure out how we do it as Ubuntu or other platforms.