Standard option for linux
July 12, 2025

Standard option for linux

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

We have thousands of VMs running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to support all kind of applications, monitoring tools and databases. Splunk, tenable, mongodb, cyberark to name a few.

Pros

  • cheaper alternative OS from AIX / HPUX
  • run all kind of apps and tools
  • suitable for cloud environments

Cons

  • transparent OS upgrade method
  • improved LVM (logical volume manager)
  • improved cluster
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the standard linux OS in use enterprise wide
  • widely used and with good support
can run thousands of apps and tools. widely used and has a wide range of possibilities
It is cheaper and widely used, and in some cases even better OS (then Solaris for example)

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is well suited for cloud environments, fast deployments and to run non-intensive apps/tools (with low memory and low cpu consumption).Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) might not be suited for really huge databases and intensive CPU processing.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Feature Ratings

Operating System
7.7
Resource Allocation
8
File Management
8
Hardware Device Management
8
Software Application Management
8
System Update Frequency
7
Operating System Security
7

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