RHEL OS experience
May 08, 2024
RHEL OS experience
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Meteorcomm uses RHEL as the operating system for our Interoperable Train Control Messaging (ITCM) product. RHEL provides a well-supported operating system which provides stability, performance, and high availability, all features which our messaging system requires. ITCM is also built on top of key Red Hat technologies, in particular Messaging Realtime Grid (MRG), allowing us to leverage a well-documented and supported set of features.
- Performance
- Stability
- High availability
- Core messaging functionality
- Support for 32-bit systems (hundreds of thousands of devices in the field running on 32-bit hardware can no longer be updated)
- Ease of use for clustering technology (stonith and fencing documentation could be made more straightforward)
- Support for lightweight containerization which can be orchestrated on single board computers
- Licensing costs for Kubernetes and openshift were prohibitive, making solutions built on these technologies unattractive to our target audiance
- Red Hat consulting and support has enabled us to effectively bootstrap new projects built on their products
Our use of RHEL has been orthogonal to our exploration of OpenShift and Kubernetes. We have experimented with using minimal footprint RHEL instances inside containers to minimize the total size of our containers.
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