My main use cases involve using it to run our Ansible automation platform and various workloads, depending on what Development decides based on the project. We also use it for our Kubernetes clusters.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with HA and Update Services 8.8
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Distro with great support
What do you like best about the product?
The continuous updates and guarantees. Great support when issues pop up
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes behind the times with current tech stacks
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Biggest is stability. We need this.
Delivers reliability and simplifies development processes with dependable package management
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that I appreciate the most are focused on stability. It is a reliable system that I can depend on more than anything else. That stability benefits my company by providing more uptime and more satisfied gamers.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points related to stability and documentation. It is very easy to find solutions to problems or access official documentation, whereas with other Debian-based distributions, one often finds themselves searching through random forums.
Regarding built-in security features for risk reduction and compliance maintenance, some features are straightforward when following standards and installation profiles. However, the development side frequently mentions challenges with SELinux, as it is more difficult to understand and somewhat esoteric. Some features are very well-developed and easily understood, while others are more complex to implement.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risks. While there is not much technical difference between RHEL and Oracle Linux, compared to other alternatives, it provides benefits.
We manage our systems for provisioning and patching using Ansible automation controller for patches and mirror repositories as needed.
What needs improvement?
What is lacking is better FS support natively in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It has many nice features, however, XFS is becoming outdated. That is the major improvement that would be relatively easy to implement, perhaps around version 11. Fedora has already introduced it, so it is in the pipeline.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
When it comes to its stability and reliability, it is great.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) scales fine with the growing needs of my company. I do not see much difference between RHEL and any other real distribution in those terms.
As far as scalability, it is all Linux at the end of the day and will scale equally. The management tools and features on top of it provide the value-add, but regarding the base operating system, I do not see much difference.
How are customer service and support?
We do not use customer service and technical support frequently. It is more about getting that checkbox for insurance, compliance, or whatever regulation we need to follow.
If I had to rate the customer support, I would give it an eight as it is quite good.
How was the initial setup?
My experience deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has evolved. In the past, it used to be more complicated, however, with current development tools and methodologies, it is far easier. Using Packer and initialization files that build every time, it functions smoothly.
What about the implementation team?
My team deploys the solution on-premise, and we have varying departments and organizations for on-prem.
What was our ROI?
From my perspective, I have seen a return on investment while using this platform. It is beneficial to have that stability and reliable package repositories that we depend on, rather than using something more open-source and community-driven. There is definitely a good return.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been satisfactory. It aligns with business expectations.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I consider all distributions before or while using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), however, the application team ultimately decides what fits their development cycle and needs best. For our on-premise workloads that need to be stable and operate over years, it is our default choice.
What other advice do I have?
For upgrades or migrations, I recommend building new and migrating. My team operates both on-premise and in the cloud, and we have purchased Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) through AWS Marketplace.
Overall rating: nine out of ten. To make it a ten, I would want to see more features. As someone who considers themselves an open-source zealot, the locking down of package repositories behind subscription paywalls was upsetting. It used to be a ten out of ten before that change.
RHEL User
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use. Many application vendors support it. Reliable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Haven't found anything that I don't like yet
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
using it to run jboss application that run insurance.
RHEL is secured and great to use
What do you like best about the product?
The security it brings to the table and it's enterprise ready
What do you dislike about the product?
The package management aspect of that needs improvement
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Customer use cases
Environment is very customizable to my team's needs.
What do you like best about the product?
It's open source nature and the ability to modify as needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
Tends to be a lack of support in more consumer style uses such as games and mainstream apps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use RHEL as an operating platform for our product.
Easy to deploy and maintain
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoy how easy the distribution is to install on various platforms, physical and virtual, and I appreciate the support from Red Hat, via knowledge base posts and direct ticket support. Red Hat is a great company with a great support team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the licensing options can be confusing depending on your customer. E.g, private, defense, medical.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red Hat solves our problem of picking a unified operating system across multiple systems and customers. By using RHEL, we're able to hire support engineers with various backgrounds and use them to support multiple customers because RHEL offers a predictable and standard environment to work in.
Ensures security compliance and enables elastic growth with seamless scalability
What is our primary use case?
We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to run our web servers and application servers, and in some cases database servers. It is our primary operating system, and the majority of our servers run Unix, especially Linux.
How has it helped my organization?
The virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) benefits my company as the web servers and application servers allow us to grow and be elastic about our loads and costs.
What is most valuable?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve everything, from security compliance to running the core infrastructure of the company.
My favorite feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the virtualization.
I have been involved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) upgrades and migrations. We upgraded from version seven to nine recently, first from seven to eight, then to nine. Security requirements were a consideration when we were choosing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in the cloud.
The reason security was a consideration is that primarily we're dealing with the container section of Linux shops. The core of the OS cannot be touched or hacked, especially when it comes to financial transactions. When dealing with financial transactions, we need to keep certain aspects more secure, such as PCI compliance.
My team works directly with kernel patching on a monthly basis, and it's excellent; we always get the fixes for any vulnerabilities, which we have to keep up with based on the financial transactions. We need to keep up with the security patches.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risks. While I don't have a specific number, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has definitely helped in being more stable than other operating systems. When we had other operating systems, we experienced a lot of general panic with infrastructures such as older HP-UX. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is definitely more stable than that.
What needs improvement?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) can be improved by making it lighter. By making it lighter, there should be versions for specific cases, for customers or images.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) since 2003.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
My experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in terms of stability and reliability is excellent.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) scales with the growing needs of my company excellently, and that is one of the reasons we use it. We scale on a day-to-day basis using the virtualization, which allows us to add resources if we have a new client tomorrow.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) supports our hybrid cloud strategy as we have some legacy systems that we maintain both on-premise and elsewhere. We offer services that are not for the area where we work, which allows us to offer a better response to our clients that are further away, using Azure and different regions for them, so our Red Hat Enterprise server is closer to them instead of having it here.
How are customer service and support?
Every time we have to work on a case with customer service and technical support, the response is fast. Usually, I send the information, and they have something for me within hours, sometimes even minutes.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have considered other solutions while using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). We have different kinds of operating systems for different clients or solutions, and while we still prefer Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), our goal is to standardize between AIX and IBM.
We use Windows, which is challenging. We have AIX, which we run within the IBM Z environment. AIX is good, however, the hardware is not optimal, and there's a license for the hardware that is especially used for databases such as Oracle, where you need to license a whole mainframe just to run it.
What was our ROI?
From a technical point of view, the biggest return on investment when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for me is interoperability and the ability to automate a lot of the processes, from scratch to day-to-day basis.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has been a journey. Licensing for on-premise was different; you have your license for the hardware you're using. When doing it for the cloud, it's more of a subscription-based system. It's been variable with different pricing; we still prefer the older way.
What other advice do I have?
On a scale of one to ten, I rate Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) a ten.
JDs RHEL Review
What do you like best about the product?
Wide use, stability and customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
inexperienced users have a hard time learning and getting familiar with the OS
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Many applications and databases for the function of the business run on RHEL
RHEL Review
What do you like best about the product?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a lot of cool features. The first and foremost being the support that Red Hat provides and the documentation. I've been able to find all my issues with Red Hat's documentation, which has been easy to navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
As far as the dislikes, there are not many that come to mind. I've had a longer history with debian based systems, and only recently started using RHEL. The dislikes were more of a lack of experience than dislikes of the actual product itself.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red Hat has benefited my company by enabling our team to upgrade our existing RHEL 6 ,and even RHEL 7 machines to RHEL 8, and now RHEL 9 efficiently as well as migrate the CentOS servers to RHEL with minor to no issues, that weren't hard to resolve.
Good for Gov Work, fast deployment
What do you like best about the product?
Good community base, support with applications like Chef configuration management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Expensive license. Not fun to work with on ARM Macbooks with configuration management tools like Chef
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure and manageable
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