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 8.6
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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.
Review on Red Hat Linux
What do you like best about the product?
Red hat Linux is an enterprise grade Linux OS which is used for hosting Backend applications and i like the support from Red hat team if there is any issue.
What do you dislike about the product?
After working with Red hat Linux I did not think there is any dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves our issues of hosting Backend applications.
Ready for scaling right out of the box
What do you like best about the product?
It generally has all other packages I need available in it's repositories and if not since it is so widely used you can find support for just about everything you could need.
What do you dislike about the product?
Regarding virtualization built in it just doesn't compare to VMware or Hyper-V. It is functional but not as customizable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is very easy to manage multiple servers from a single location rather than needing physical access to each server we deploy.
A secured operating system for enterprise
What do you like best about the product?
It is one of most reliable and secure operating system that provides robust features and extensive support options. Its stable and scalable platform is widely used in enterprise environments for mission-critical applications. With its open-source approach and flexible deployment options, it's a top choice for businesses of all sizes.
Also the customer support is amazing if required any troubleshooting or to get any report on root cause analysis for any incident or problem.
Also the customer support is amazing if required any troubleshooting or to get any report on root cause analysis for any incident or problem.
What do you dislike about the product?
On of biggest drawback is its cli based usage. UI need to be designed so that we can get what is working and going in backend hassle free like other operating systems. Some critical commands are also left open which can halt system when used normally.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red hat helped me in making services run on low end specs without high demand for resources. As comes whith command line option so its fast and quick compared to GUI based operating systems.
Rock solid, no frills
What do you like best about the product?
Rock solid distribution, flexible, no frills. Really Recommended. No issue from small business to large datacenter.
What do you dislike about the product?
I cannot find anything. Operating Systems should be reliable, and thisi is it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Basis distribution for our workloads.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux review
What do you like best about the product?
Its hassle-free installation, maintenance and 24x7 Red hats support.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside I could think of right now is the number of frequent upgrades. Although it is good from the security perspective but sometimes it is a big hassle to have downtime
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deployment of new servers efficiently within few minutes
Powerful and Stable Operating system for Enterprise Environments
What do you like best about the product?
Rock solid Stability
Commitment to security
scalability - from small to large scale applications
support it provides
Trainings and certifications
Commitment to security
scalability - from small to large scale applications
support it provides
Trainings and certifications
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost is main factor to its disadvantage
Learning curve, bit harder for beginners
Limited Desktop environment - can be improved better
Learning curve, bit harder for beginners
Limited Desktop environment - can be improved better
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Excellent product to scale applications in large scale with security implementations and can achieve quite amount of great results in short span of time.
Safe and Secure OS
What do you like best about the product?
One of the leading Enterprise systems for Linux, it provides stability, scalability and automation. It's not only limited to on-prem but is also cloud-native, meaning it can be deployed on any cloud VM. It provides a secure way of running the apps. We have been running thousands of kubernetes pods on this without any disruption.
What do you dislike about the product?
RHEL is an enterprise edition of Linux. So it might not be adaptable for some small industries looking for an open-source solution. Apart from this I do not see any other downside.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking for a safe and secure way to build our Kubernetes platform, whether on-prem or cloud. Considering the vulnerabilities threat, we do not want to use some open source OS. RHEL came to our rescue, and we have been using it as our underlying OS for managing our nodes. At the same time, we were also looking for secure container images and ended up using the RHEL-backed container images.
More performing and secure Linux after the acquisition by IBM
What do you like best about the product?
After the transition to the IBM world, this Linux release has taken on a greater value for use in production, for the more services now guaranteed from one of the most trusted brands in the industry
What do you dislike about the product?
With the latest change of hands between companies, the test distribution, marketed as CentOS, is disappearing with the good peace of developers from all over the world
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With the transition to the well-known Armonk brand, they have been merged with the other services they offer extensively, and this is bringing benefits to everyone both from the point of view of product stability and from the point of view of support which is notoriously managed at a high level
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