The primary use case for our company is for deploying applications.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with HA and Update Services 8.6
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Has improved deployment processes and streamlined workload management without disruption
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable aspect is for deploying applications.
The ease of use works well and is what I appreciate the most about the solution's most valuable features.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped me to automate my process to mitigate downtime and workloads.
The solution has improved my organization, especially with the ease of deployment, as it's mostly just a better user experience for our users.
What needs improvement?
The challenges that we've had with different servers that don't have access to the internet require an installation, and keeping track of all the different versions on the different deployments is a challenge. I would love a feature that could manage the agent versions.
On the Ansible side, from what I've seen, there are certain templates and playbooks that can be used for specific use cases that I'd like to see in the next release.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for a couple of years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability and reliability of this solution is very good.
In the environments that I work in, I've had no downtime, crashes, or performance issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It scales well with our growing needs and organization, and it's been pretty easy to spin up new servers as we require them.
What other advice do I have?
The other users of the solution in my company are probably more on the operation side.
I think it would be suitable for a couple more roles.
I've been made aware of some of the latest announcements that were made today; for a large organization, it takes a while to get there, so we might not be able to realize those for another couple of years, but it seems there are new features that are coming out.
I'm not sure if there was one specific feature that stood out to me today; I'd have to look back at my notes, but it seems there's more functionality that's being offered.
I would rate this review a 9.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Has enabled consistent deployments across hybrid environments and supported our shift to web-based infrastructure
What is our primary use case?
My main use cases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are that previously, I used it on database servers, and right now, we are using them for web servers, JBoss, and JDV servers.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) scales well with the growing needs of my organization because RBC always needs new servers, whether they can be Linux or Windows servers, but mostly we are using Linux since we don't use JBoss or JDV on Windows.
What is most valuable?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points because it is very versatile and stable, and we always use it for our new business.
Specifically, I can say that if we have a subscription, we can make installation easily and access repositories easily.
This benefits my organization significantly because Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is really useful, very stable, and very versatile.
What needs improvement?
In terms of additional features for the next release, I saw it comes with AI integration, but we don't know the architecture yet. We want to see it first, then we can say. AI will be important for us.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for 15 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would assess the stability and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as nine out of ten.
I have experienced downtime, crashes, or performance issues, but it happens only maybe once a year or something. There is not very much downtime.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I'm not sure if we have expanded our usage at all.
How are customer service and support?
I am very satisfied with the technical support experience; it is very nice.
I would evaluate customer service and technical support as nine. I can give a nine because if we have any problem, we can get a response in a short time, but sometimes it is not the relevant solution; that can happen one or two times in a year, which seems normal.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have not used another solution to address similar needs prior to adopting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
How was the initial setup?
Our deployment model is that RBC is using all of them—on-prem, cloud, and hybrid.
What about the implementation team?
I would describe my experience with deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as limited because mostly it is our Linux team working on it. They are the ones deploying it while we mostly are ordering servers and using them.
What was our ROI?
I have not seen an ROI with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), as I'm not on the finance side and I'm not calculating it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing indicates that if you compare it with other operating systems, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is cheaper than them.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We are not on the selecting side before choosing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) because if you want to use Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is always our first option. We don't check other options.
What stood out to me about Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is that I remember Oracle released a Linux for their database installation, but I don't see anybody using that, as we are mostly using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
What other advice do I have?
I prefer Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as an operating system.
I'm not sure if Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risk.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has improved since version five, then six, seven, right now eight and nine; it always comes with new features, sometimes new application security enhancements. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is improving, and it has improved.
I would assess the knowledge base offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as very nice because if we have any problem or error, we can find it easily at the portal.
Nothing is perfect.
My advice to another organization considering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is that I prefer to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) always. I recommend Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
I gave this review a rating of 9 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Provides unified provisioning and monitoring across hybrid environments through an efficient interface
What is our primary use case?
My main use cases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) include maintaining a stack of servers where we perform monitoring, provisioning, certificate provisioning, and checking patch status across the servers.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature within my systems is Satellite. The features that I appreciate most on a daily or on-demand basis are those provided by Satellite. This feature benefits my organization by providing provisioning for every instance, as we have approximately 100 instances under Red Hat and another 20 under Ubuntu. Currently, we use a single user interface to control them all.
What needs improvement?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) could be improved by providing end-to-end support for customers because we are seeing that it is more distributed. For all the Red Hat services, we use Satellite, but other services are on the cloud, and some things are hybrid cloud. This means we have multiple platforms to monitor each time. Another area for improvement is the false positives. We have the Red Hat alarm system, and it is good, but it just fires and reports, sending an email every night for us to check our duties. This is really unpleasant for us.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have experienced downtime, crashes, or performance issues seldomly. It is good and can solve 80% of problems. Sometimes I seek consultants for help to rebuild the model or to see what the root cause is. Sometimes this problem occurs many times, requiring someone to show up and thoroughly investigate it.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) scales with the growing needs of my organization as it is stable, and I see that with Android development. However, I think it has only increased our usage by 3%. I think it is stable and we will not decommission it, but we still compare the benefits of cloud solutions and the Red Hat solution. I have expanded usage on Red Hat because Ubuntu is an open licensing and very unmanageable, so we are trying to reallocate resources to Red Hat.
How are customer service and support?
I evaluate customer service and technical support as great. My own company has a consultant who is very timely in dedicating support to our services. We can call at any time to seek urgent consultant services. Overall, it is good. We find that rebooting or rebuilding is tough for us. We want to make sure that the service is ready to use, but for some unfortunate situations that happen, we seek 24-hour support to solve the problem as soon as possible. Every second that passes represents a loss for us.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to adopting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we were using Ubuntu, and now it depends on what this product and what this pipeline built initially. If they used Ubuntu at the beginning of the startup, we just use it. We make sure they are up, make sure they are stable, and do not care about anything else. If they use Red Hat, we just keep running with it.
How was the initial setup?
I would describe my experience with deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as manageable. It is not out of control. For every server instance, we get notified, and I get an alarm at a very early time, so we can manage to replicate it. This instance has some broken files, which is helpful for the developer to debug and understand it.
When I was deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the deployment, particularly the hotfixes, is a real challenge. We have some big instances with the front-end code and back-end code in one service. We have to do this really quickly to deploy hotfixes and implement new features. We need to make sure that the code is consistent across all the services at that time. We can do the Ansible playbook, which is a very good template that we can reuse to replicate the problem.
What about the implementation team?
I have been involved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) upgrades or migrations, as for version upgrades, I have been involved. We still have some Red Hat Linux consultants who support us in doing the migration. I think it is helpful. The seamlessness of the process with the consultant depends on the service difficulty because sometimes everything is hard to ensure that it is correct. It depends on the project size.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I do not touch the pricing and the cost of the solution, but I think compared to some cloud costs, it is good because our team is relying on that. We just make sure that the service is up.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The other solutions I considered before selecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are that in our company, we have two choices: one is Red Hat and one is Ubuntu.
What other advice do I have?
My security requirements and considerations in choosing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) include that this is our manager, and we want to have some endpoints tracking any attack and detecting the status of anything broken. My assessment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)'s built-in security and compliance features is that right now, I think it is simply risk reduction. I am just maintaining it. For maintaining compliance, I can say that the first priority is to keep it safe. The second priority is to keep it up. We make sure they are okay, available to use, and available to maintain. For any other new features, we do not require that. We just make sure of these two things. Beyond this point, we are seeking some cloud help.
My upgrade and migration plans to stay current with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are that we need to upgrade it every year, or just when you have a vulnerability, you need to come up with it and upgrade it. From my perspective, we are not doing really timely upgrading because we do not want to disturb the current pipelines.
For the knowledge base offered by Red Hat, such as the Confluence page, it is helpful. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the knowledge base is helpful. I try to look up and check many of those pages, and they give me detailed ideas on how to implement the system. Sometimes the problem is really unique, and I can get help or try to get support to formalize some questions and help us understand the solutions. I still need to seek a senior consultant's help on migration. Some documentation is outdated.
My advice to other organizations considering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is that if you use Java, you should use it. If you have many massive servers to maintain, a Red Hat solution with the pipeline and Satellite is beneficial. If you have some old legacy systems, you do not have to set up new labor on monitoring. I give this product an overall rating of 8 out of 10.
Has helped reduce downtime for telco workloads and simplified patch management through automation tools
What is our primary use case?
My main use cases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are telco applications.
What is most valuable?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve my pain points with support.
I manage my Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems using Red Hat Satellite, which helps me a lot to manage the new patches we integrate, making our job very easy.
The upgrade or migration process for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is acceptable. Migrating from Red Hat 7 to 8 was somewhat complex; however, 7 to 9 and 8 to 9 migrations are acceptable. While we have not yet migrated from 9 to 10, we have a plan and I registered for a session on Red Hat 10 today, so we are planning to migrate all our Red Hat 6 servers in production to 9 and 10.
I assess Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)'s built-in security features, including SELinux and Pacemaker, by saying these two features help considerably to manage and keep the system secure. On top of that, we are using firewalls, so we feel very confident without worrying about the future.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps to mitigate downtime and data losses since we use the Pacemaker cluster, which helps considerably. As a Telco, we cannot tolerate downtime issues.
What needs improvement?
From a business perspective, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is high in price, which has made our management less interested recently, not because of instability. However, sometimes we try to adapt some open-source alternatives such as Rocky Linux.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for 15 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I assess the stability and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as nine out of ten. I have not seen any limitations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) yet.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) scales very well with my organization.
How are customer service and support?
I evaluate customer service and technical support as a six out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
I did not face challenges in deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on-premises or on the cloud since I was very enthusiastic about it. I started learning Red Hat Linux back at university about 6, 7, 8, or 9 years ago, and a number of people were also interested at that time, so I did not see any challenges for using or adopting it.
What about the implementation team?
I have been involved in upgrading Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on-premises and tested something in the cloud, but it is not in production. On-premises, we are performing upgrades almost every day.
We are already using Red Hat Satellite and Ansible, which we have in place. Probably in the future, we will consider VMware, but I do not have a specific plan for that right now.
What was our ROI?
As an engineer, I cannot calculate the ROI in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), but management has all the visibility, and they are getting the ROI while we are satisfied with that.
What other advice do I have?
What stands out to me in the evaluation process for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is that it is positive.
My advice to other organizations looking to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is that they should use it. Everything is acceptable with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) because patching is available and management is available, so I do not think anything additional is needed from a basic standpoint. I gave this review a rating of 9 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Stable and Secure OS
What do you like best about the product?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides long-term support and reliable updates that are well-managed, ensuring minimal disruption to operations. Its stability and strong security features make it a trusted choice for enterprise environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface feels outdated and could benefit from modernization
which make administration tasks more difficult for those who prefer streamlined graphical experience.
which make administration tasks more difficult for those who prefer streamlined graphical experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux solves key challenges of stability and security by providing a reliable, secure, and scalable platform for enterprise use. It ensures high availability, reduces downtime, and help to meet compliance standards, all while supporting our growing infrastructure needs.
Red hat enterprise linux review
What do you like best about the product?
1. Much more secure than windows operating system.
2. Performance is best as compare to any other operating system even if we allocate minimum required resources like cpu ram etc
3. Used in almost every organisation to host most of the mission critical applications as rhel providers performance, security and free to use.
2. Performance is best as compare to any other operating system even if we allocate minimum required resources like cpu ram etc
3. Used in almost every organisation to host most of the mission critical applications as rhel providers performance, security and free to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. GUI interface is not that user friendly as compare to windows.
2. Creating repository removes the packages dependency and installing packages without subscription is difficult.
3. If audit happens removing vulnerabilities and updating packages without subscription is so much difficult.
4. Making changes in the /etc configuration files and restarting any service as per need when selinux is in enforcing state is difficult.
5. Allowing ports and services when firewall is in on state is difficult.
2. Creating repository removes the packages dependency and installing packages without subscription is difficult.
3. If audit happens removing vulnerabilities and updating packages without subscription is so much difficult.
4. Making changes in the /etc configuration files and restarting any service as per need when selinux is in enforcing state is difficult.
5. Allowing ports and services when firewall is in on state is difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Red Hat is solving the problem of performance as its performance is vertical much excellent as compare to windows server.
2. We can use and host mission critical applications free of cost since red hat is free where and we can use windows server free trial for only 180 days. For rhel we only need expert guy who can manage the entire rhel infra.
3. Since source code of rhel can be changed and we can do any customisation in rhel it is much much secure than windows so no need to buy any antivirus for rhel.
4. This is very much more stable os as compare to windows server
2. We can use and host mission critical applications free of cost since red hat is free where and we can use windows server free trial for only 180 days. For rhel we only need expert guy who can manage the entire rhel infra.
3. Since source code of rhel can be changed and we can do any customisation in rhel it is much much secure than windows so no need to buy any antivirus for rhel.
4. This is very much more stable os as compare to windows server
Security of Red hat
What do you like best about the product?
There are many operating systems available in the market, but the way Red Hat approaches security and administration is truly impressive.
What do you dislike about the product?
With the security it brings the licence and subscription, which i personally don't like and its restrictions to source code.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Since our application is deployed on a Red Hat server, it provides an excellent approach to both security and user management.
RHEL review from an MSP perspective
What do you like best about the product?
It's a staple in the IT world and just like offering Microsoft licensing to your clients, you have to offer RHEL as well. The support you get for Linux is crucial in the enterprise space.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly there is nothing I dislike about Red Hat and they are much easier to deal with from a partner perspective than Microsoft.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows our client to run their mission critical workloads and from a operational perspective, having the ability to engage RedHat for technical issues is critical.
Enterprise-Ready OS with Excellent Support
What do you like best about the product?
Stability & Reliability: RHEL is extremely stable and reliable, making it ideal for production workloads.
Enterprise Support: Red Hat’s enterprise-grade support and regular security patches give confidence in critical environments.
Security & Compliance: Built-in security features like SELinux, FIPS compliance, and regular CVE patches keep systems safe.
Enterprise Support: Red Hat’s enterprise-grade support and regular security patches give confidence in critical environments.
Security & Compliance: Built-in security features like SELinux, FIPS compliance, and regular CVE patches keep systems safe.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost Factor: Subscription and support costs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RHEL is helping us run mission-critical workloads with high stability and security. It addresses compliance needs through SELinux and timely patches, while its predictable lifecycle and enterprise support make it easier to manage large-scale deployments. This has reduced downtime, improved security posture, and given us confidence in running our applications in production.
A Reliable Enterprise-Grade Linux OS
What do you like best about the product?
I truly value the stability and reliability that RHEL offers for enterprise workloads. Its security features, such as SELinux, regular patching, and long-term support, make me feel confident when managing critical applications. RHEL also integrates smoothly with cloud platforms, virtualization, and container technologies like OpenShift. The documentation is thorough, and Red Hat's support team is always quick to respond whenever I encounter any issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
The subscription cost is on the higher side compared to other Linux distributions, which can be a barrier for smaller businesses or personal projects. Also, the learning curve can be steep for beginners.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RHEL provides a secure and reliable foundation for deploying enterprise applications. It helps ensure compliance with industry standards, reduces downtime, and makes system administration easier through automation and management tools like Ansible and Red Hat Satellite. This directly improves productivity and operational efficiency.
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