RHEL provides a comprehensive set of software with excellent performance and world-class support.
What do you like best about the product?
Red Hat support is by far one of the greatest strengths of RHEL.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some tools I frequently use have been deprecated in recent RHEL releases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
End-user systems and servers are simple to deploy and manage. The benefit of this is more time spent on higher priority issues.
Streamlined use leads to significant time savings and reliability over years
What is our primary use case?
My main use cases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are everything from research computing to hosting websites. We've run a gamut of different things with RHEL.
I used to use it a lot for a healthcare company and healthcare software. Now predominantly, it's research that is very statistically intensive. So anything where we have to do data computations, data rates, we need to synthesize data, aggregating it from instruments all over the world or within the lab itself. We take all of that, and we also use it to produce applications for people, whether it's just interacting with it via a website or an actual homegrown application where they can go through, search, look at the data, and do their own data manipulation.
What is most valuable?
My favorite feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the ease of use; it is streamlined, making it very intuitive to do things.
The ease of use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) reduces time for my company. It reduces the time to do things, allowing us to do very complex tasks in a very short period, since it is very straightforward and makes it easier to get things done.
It has been around for so long, and it's such a standardized platform that the knowledge base from the employee perspective is usually pretty high compared to other enterprise Linux distributions. Therefore, the overall time savings with RHEL is huge.
Our upgrade or migration plans to stay current with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) involve adhering to a rule: once a version reaches end-of-life, we do not enter the extended life cycle. We plan that out ahead, ensuring that all of our systems get migrated and updated about a year before the end of life of any version. Some systems get migrated to the latest version while others remain and just get updated to whatever is current. It depends on the application and its external dependencies, but it's just a solid plan we follow.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped us mitigate downtime and lower risks, as we've utilized virtual machines and process load balancing to minimize issues. While we've had downtime with any systems, there tends to be a lot less with RHEL. We have had some systems running just for fun for three years without any downtime, which reflects their stability. I would say that RHEL has reduced risks by at least 80% compared to open-source distributions based on experiences in recent years.
What needs improvement?
To improve Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the biggest thing is the availability of some tools that unfortunately have to be paid for. While I understand that you have to pay for resources, it would be nice to have a centralized location where you can easily find those tools.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for close to 20 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Regarding the stability and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we have systems that we've kept running for years without any downtime, so I have never had a problem with stability or reliability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has scaled right along with our growing company needs; the only exceptions to that are with supercomputers, but that's a whole different animal.
How are customer service and support?
My experience with customer service and support from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has been good so far. I haven't needed to use it often, which goes back to its reliability. Whenever I've had issues reaching out, they've responded quickly with appropriate information.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have looked at other solutions while using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), such as Debian, Ubuntu (a Debian spinoff), FreeBSD, and some others, however, we keep going back to RHEL due to its reliability and available resources.
How was the initial setup?
The deployment experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has been very easy; we've been doing it for years. The automation that they've built over the years to do the deployments just makes it easier and easier every year, transitioning from kickstarts to using things OpenShift. I'm excited to see how this Image Builder works with that, too, so it has continuously improved.
What was our ROI?
The biggest return on investment for me from using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is just overall time saved.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have looked at other solutions while using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), such as Debian, Ubuntu (a Debian spinoff), FreeBSD, and some others. We keep going back to RHEL due to its reliability and available resources.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) overall at least a solid ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
I use it daily, I convinced my buisness to use it and recommend it constantly.
What do you like best about the product?
Consistent experience, ease of use and good tools
What do you dislike about the product?
Need more customization on desktop. I would like more customization for either KDE or Gnome.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RedHat has help us increase performance without increasing our hardware foot print.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Rocks!
What do you like best about the product?
The stability is amazing, we moved workloads over from Windows to Linux and it has been so much more stable than it was on Windows. Customer Support is awesome as well. Ease of Use makes it great for some of my beginner admins.
What do you dislike about the product?
I need more customization on the desktop GNOME and better printer drivers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helping us move into the containers and AI worlds, by giving us a stable environment on which to run our services and workloads on.
This is one of the best products I’ve used in my entire career
What do you like best about the product?
It’s too easy to use and you can find a lot of documentation
What do you dislike about the product?
I love all about this product, is really interesting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux helps solve issues related to system stability, security, and scalability. It benefits us by providing a reliable and consistent platform for deploying and managing enterprise applications, reducing downtime and improving overall operational efficiency
easy and reliable use
What do you like best about the product?
secure and easy use, reliable and price worthy
What do you dislike about the product?
limited packages, the support level could be much better
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
the limited packages
Great, stable and well documented product
What do you like best about the product?
From operations point of view the KB articles provided by Red Hat when troubleshooting issues is a huge plus that the completion is lacking.
Very stable distro with lots of customization options and almost unlimited customizability for making a custom ISO using anaconda and kickstart files.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing is probably a bit on the high end compared to the completion causing our users to seek a cheaper alternative (rpm based distro).
Support wise we are not really in need of TAC level assistance very often but on the few times we did I would say that got a bit of mixed feelings with the response time and approach of resolving the issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our users require to spin up Windows and Linux VMs within our internal cloud, Red Hat enterprise Linux is one of the offered solutions. Upon deployment of the system their application is being installed. Some DB based systems are also running on RHEL and of course Satellite and capsules on our infra
Reliable and easy to get support
What do you like best about the product?
This is the de-facto standard for running Linux on the enterprise. There really isn't a second thought on what server Linux you should go with. Most products will work on Red Hat Linux. Saves a lot of time. Support is available on the internet and paid support is pretty good too.
For a developer who doesn't get to use Linux all of the time, it's a great time saver. There is readily available documentation.
Easy to install as it is the de-facto standard. Doesn't take long to get it up and working.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a lot of complexity to RHEL. Light speed should help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red Hat is a full package suite that goes beyond the operating system. It runs all of our virtual machines now. It's also our container environment with Openshift. Let's us grow and adopt new technology on our pace in one technology stack.
RHEL
What do you like best about the product?
RHEL is easy to manage, secure, deploy, and automate.
What do you dislike about the product?
The "NetworkManager" service has capital letters.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows scalable deployments of high performance systems.
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What do you like best about the product?
I like the ease of use as well as the exceptional Support provided when I open a case with Red hat.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hard to find information about product end of life or installed package end of life when doing searches online.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We rely heavily on Red Hat Linux for Cost savings as well as reliability and ease of implementation.
