We are a fintech company that uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for enterprise and financial applications. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is deployed on servers at two sites. Access is mostly limited to IT staff because it is only used on our servers, not employee workstations.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with HA and Update Services 9.2
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Have been a Red Hat partner since 2003
What do you like best about the product?
Have been a Red Hat partner since 2003, the first installation was RHEL 2.1
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much, works as it should work, introducing new features in each release
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is open source solution so it can be tailored according to customer needs
rhel review
What do you like best about the product?
I like the community focus on the products
What do you dislike about the product?
it sometimes can be expensive depending on lic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its easy to bring in thrid party applications and libraries.
Reliable, easy management
What do you like best about the product?
Reliability, ease of management. Support is good and responses quickly to any issues
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of best practice configuration around security
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure reliable operating system for enterprise private clouud
RHEL REview
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to admin and the support through Red Hat.
What do you dislike about the product?
Also the support through red hat. It depends on the engineer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We deploy rhel 7 through Chef config and are moving away from that for rhel9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
What do you like best about the product?
As a Fedora contributor, I appreciate all the work that Red Hat puts into the upstream communities behind their products. I also like how they recently expanded the availability of the developer subscriptions.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's hard for me to think of something that I dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RHEL is very reliable and receives quick updates for any security issues.
Rock solid Linux
What do you like best about the product?
Secure and simple to use Linux distribution
What do you dislike about the product?
Subscription model without a real upstream alternative
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Operating system for all our application servers
Best Enterprise-level OS out there
What do you like best about the product?
Knowing that we have an excellent company to turn to for support and great services to choose from is invaluable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Much access to CVEs/solutions/etc. requires login...but, really, if that's the worst, that's not bad.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being a reliable and robust enterprise OS for all of our platform needs
Solid, Stable, Secure Server OS
What do you like best about the product?
RHEL is a complete, stable, and secure operating system that is very good at using system resources and delivering solid uptime for services run on it. The most common server software (for web, database, directory, etc.) is packaged by RedHat, kept up-to-date with back-ported security updates, and easily updatable via RPM.
The Linux operating system makes better use of system resources than Windows-based servers. For this reason, any Linux makes better use of things like memory and CPU. RHEL generally sets up a small subset of required processes (that you can also easily tailor to your needs) on install. Things are a little more "additive", meaning it will start with more bare minimum services, and you add what is needed for your particular case. They try to strike a balance between most commonly-needed things, and security.
Having software installed via RPM and centralized in repositories (which you can self-host by purchasing Satellite) makes it incredibly easy to keep your environment updated and scriptable.
The Linux operating system makes better use of system resources than Windows-based servers. For this reason, any Linux makes better use of things like memory and CPU. RHEL generally sets up a small subset of required processes (that you can also easily tailor to your needs) on install. Things are a little more "additive", meaning it will start with more bare minimum services, and you add what is needed for your particular case. They try to strike a balance between most commonly-needed things, and security.
Having software installed via RPM and centralized in repositories (which you can self-host by purchasing Satellite) makes it incredibly easy to keep your environment updated and scriptable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing that I can really mark as a dislike is the cost/licensing of it. To be fair, a lot of work goes into maintaining the packages and OS in a non-disruptive manner. While I think you are getting what you pay for, licensing shenanigans are always possible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RHEL makes good use of our hardware, making it very easy to keep updated and secure. We don't have to hunt down third-party software and pay additional licensing; everything we need for our web platform is included, namely: Apache/NGINX for the webserver, PHP/Python for the app layer, and MySQL/PostgreSQL for the database layer. Everyone's server needs differ, but if you are looking for a solution (not a particular brand), then RedHat will probably work. What I mean by this is that if you want ActiveDirectory, you aren't going to run that on RHEL. If you want "a directory server", you have a choice of various server software packaged on RHEL that will fit that need.
Offers performance stability, and it's easy to scale up or down by adding servers
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers performance stability, and it's easy to scale up or down by adding servers. The OS is easy to monitor and integrate with other systems. We use all these applications as containers. Red Hat has a container platform called OpenShift that we use to deploy containers. It's effortless to deploy and redeploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You can easily deploy it across multiple platforms and move it from one provider to another.
The operating system helps us meet security standards for the financial industry. You need high levels of security in this business to protect your financial data. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has various security features.
We use the System Roles feature primarily with Ansible. It's powerful. You can use it to perform complex tasks, and it simplifies processes. For example, it helps you change network settings for storage, security, monitoring, etc. System roles help us automate security configurations and maintain consistency across systems. They have playbooks we can get from their website, and it's all based on system roles.
My company uses Red Hat Insights only for systems with internet access, but most of our environment is offline.
What is most valuable?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is easy to manage, update, and integrate. I also like Red Hat Enterprise Linux's built-in security features. You need to enable them by default or keep them enabled if you want your system to be secured. It protects most of the system components.
What needs improvement?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux's monitoring could be improved. I would like additional monitoring features, like a greater ability to monitor services and workloads running. Satellite can provide centralized monitoring of subscriptions and deployments. You can build a monitoring console, but there is no native monitoring.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for four or five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable like every other Linux distro. It works fine. We have had no issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is easy to scale. You can clone it, deploy another instance, and scale it up with a few changes.
How are customer service and support?
I rate Red Hat's support an eight out of ten. I contact them often. Red Hat's support is helpful. They can solve your issue most of the time or point you in the right direction.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux is mostly straightforward, but it depends on your requirements and the settings you need to apply. We typically do everything in-house. Red Hat Enterprise Linux requires a little maintenance. We need to do patching, clean up the file system, rotate logs, etc.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Red Hat Enterprise Linux a nine out of ten. If you don't know anything about Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you should read up on it. It will do everything you want. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is excellent.
Simplifies risk reduction and compliance maintenance by utilizing bash scripts or Ansible to automate and streamline our tasks
What is our primary use case?
The users utilize Red Hat Enterprise Linux for building, installing, and automating platforms. Additionally, we employ it as an installer for OpenShift clusters. Furthermore, there is a product called Red Hat High Availability Clustering and also JBoss. Occasionally, we also use it to build an Oracle RAC database.
How has it helped my organization?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux simplifies risk reduction and compliance maintenance by utilizing bash scripts or Ansible to automate and streamline our tasks. Red Hat also offers a tool called Convert2RHEL, which simplifies the process of maintaining our products from Oracle, CentOS, and other vendors to Red Hat. This feature is truly remarkable.
The portability of applications and containers built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is perfect for keeping our organization agile, especially when considering rootless containers or utilizing BotMan containers for enhanced security and performance.
The Red Hat ecosystem enables the seamless integration of our products such as Ansible, Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Satellite, and OpenShift platform to fulfill tasks, thereby enhancing the efficiency of our organization.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux helps us reduce the time we spend on tedious tasks, and the large Red Hat community provides an easy way for us to maintain or fix errors and bugs. We were able to realize the benefits quickly.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables us to achieve security standard certification. I am a certified Red Hat System Administrator and Red Hat Engineer. The content of the certificate includes topics such as C Linux. This helps to make our organization more secure and stable and has an impact on our personnel sourcing.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux assists us in building with confidence and ensures availability across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. While there is a higher level of risk associated with using a public cloud for any product, private or virtualized environments offer greater security.
Red Hat Insights helps us prevent emergencies caused by security issues, noncompliant settings, and unpatched systems by enabling us to be more proactive in detecting and avoiding errors before they occur.
Red Hat Insights provides us with vulnerability alerts and targeted guidance, especially when we register our host directly with Red Hat. It works perfectly because it utilizes machine learning, allowing us to monitor our logs and prevent unnecessary downtime.
What is most valuable?
Errata is the most valuable feature, which is supported by Red Hat. Errata is a list of corrected errors appended to a document in Red Hat, used for provisioning or batching our hosts. Moreover, its stability and security are noteworthy.
What needs improvement?
Ever since Red Hat acquired CentOS, the connection between the new CentOS Upstream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become unstable and requires improvement.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux's ability to run containerized applications is not optimized and has room for improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is extremely stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux can scale horizontally because it is in a virtualized environment. Vertical scaling depends on the deployment of the solution.
We have plans to increase our utilization of the solution.
How are customer service and support?
The Red Hat technical support is excellent; critical issues are resolved promptly.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We also utilize other Linux operating systems depending on the use case. SUSE Linux Enterprise is more optimized for SAP products. When working with an Oracle database, it is preferable to use Oracle Linux.
How was the initial setup?
The initial deployment was straightforward. The deployment time depends on two factors: the first factor is the infrastructure specs, and the second factor is what we are deploying with the operating system. For a minimal server, deployment takes five minutes. For a server with a graphical user interface, it can take up to 20 minutes.
What about the implementation team?
The implementations are all completed in-house.
What other advice do I have?
I give Red Hat Enterprise Linux a nine out of ten.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is deployed in multiple environments, including pre-production, user acceptance testing, and system integration testing. Our Red Hat team, the development team, and another team utilize Red Hat Enterprise Linux within our organization.
Each processor architecture has a distinct version of the software.
The Red Hat exams are not solely based on security but also on performance. It is a challenging skill to grasp, but once learned, Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be flawless.
I highly recommend Red Hat Enterprise Linux, particularly for production environments, due to its stability and enhanced security features.
The most valuable lesson I have learned using Red Hat Enterprise Linux is that the entire Red Hat ecosystem is perfect. All the open-source projects can work together, especially for DevOps or when implementing valid automation or containerized applications. If we need to deploy a centralized application, we will use OpenShift. And if we want to perform tasks on OpenShift, we will use Ansible as an automation platform. If we want to upgrade or manage our environment hosts in batches, we will use Red Hat Satellite. If we have applications and want to create an environment for them, we will use Red Hat JBoss. If we want to run high-availability clusters or high-performance computing clusters, we will turn to Red Hat High Availability Clustering. Working within the Red Hat ecosystem is perfect.
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