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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.


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Top 3 industries using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

27.8%

2,828 installations of 10,189

“Straight forward distribution of files with very much stability in the environment.”

— Technical Support Engineer, Kaseya (5001-10,000 employees)
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#2 most frequent

Information

13.6%

1,389 installations of 10,189

“Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us by providing a stable platform for vendors to support and develop their applications and updates for.”

— Central Office Network Technician, KPU Telecommunications (11-50 employees)
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#3 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

11.7%

1,191 installations of 10,189

“it works every time. It does what it's told to do, it's very lightweight.”

— Linux Administrator, Blue Cross from Blue Shield of Alabama (1001-5000 employees)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Reviews

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Pros

  • Operational stability and reliability, ensuring consistent performance
  • Robust security features, including effective patching and hardened configurations
  • Comprehensive enterprise-grade vendor support and documentation

Cons

  • High cost and complexity of licensing
  • Difficulties with major version upgrades and migrations
  • Perceived lack of comprehensive documentation for specific tools

Secured Enterprise environment

Incentivized
Amitabh Prasad
Technical support expert in Information Technology at Kaseya (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We consider Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) OS as one of the most secure and stable OS for all enterprise task and software management. We use this for software deployment , testing , official files management and as a backup server system as well. Just perfect for VMs as it highly support and easily to install and start.

Pros

  • Super secure and perfectly manageable file system.
  • Compatible almost in every hypervisor to create VMs and provide stable environment.
  • Memory management for enterpise task is quite well and compatible too.

Cons

  • GUI can be a little more detailed and more customized.
  • Complex to start and learn as a begineer due to dependency on CLI more.
  • For small enterprise, it is expensive, so they can include a version for them too.

Return on Investment

  • Security and performance is a major ROI for this purchase.
  • Complexity and learning time is more which brings work efficiency down.
  • Best for software testing, pentest, deployment, and upgrades.

Usability

Standard option for linux

Incentivized
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have thousands of VMs running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to support all kind of applications, monitoring tools and databases. Splunk, tenable, mongodb, cyberark to name a few.

Pros

  • cheaper alternative OS from AIX / HPUX
  • run all kind of apps and tools
  • suitable for cloud environments

Cons

  • transparent OS upgrade method
  • improved LVM (logical volume manager)
  • improved cluster

Return on Investment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the standard linux OS in use enterprise wide
  • widely used and with good support

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Solaris, IBM AIX and HP-UX

Other Software Used

Rubrik, IBM Storage Protect, IBM AIX

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Stability Security and Strategic ROI

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) serves as the foundational OS across a significant portion of our critical IT infrastructure. We leverage Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for its renowned stability, security, and performance, making it a cornerstone of our enterprise architecture. High availability and performance are very much important, and that is the business problem Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) addressed in our case.

Pros

  • High availability & performance
  • Easy scalability

Cons

  • I have seen few compatibility issues with third-party applications. That can be addressed to improve the usablity.
  • It will be great if the upgrades for most used developer tools are pushed little quicker.

Return on Investment

  • We were able to optimize the resource utilization and predict our server costs easily.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Linux/Windows Cloud Server

Other Software Used

Snowflake, Teradata Vantage

RHEL

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Engineering (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use RHEL as our primary OS in the datacenter. It’s stable, secure, and reliable for running critical apps. It helps us stay compliant, automate tasks with Ansible, and maintain consistency across all environments. It’s the solid foundation we need to run smoothly and scale confidently.

Pros

  • Stability
  • Security
  • Consistency

Cons

  • Desktop environments.
  • Subscription and licensing process.

Return on Investment

  • Enhanced security and compliance.
  • Automation with Ansible.
  • Reduced downtime and improved infrastructure stability.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Debian OS and Windows Server

Other Software Used

Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise, ChatGPT

Enterprise Linux Rhel Review

Incentivized
Victor Williams
Linux Administrator in Information Technology at Blue Cross from Blue Shield of Alabama (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our RHEL environment powers our Ansible environment. We have several top tier applications that run on RHEL. OpenShift run zone, a core RHEL for bare metal nodes, so it does a lot.

Pros

  • It's solid. You don't have a whole lot of viruses. You don't have to worry about viruses like the Windows products and it works every time. It does what it's told to do, it's very lightweight. I heard it's getting even more lightweight and can't wait for that. So solid product.

Cons

  • In the LEAP process. The upgrading process, which I'm hearing, like I said it before, prior that I was on rail seven, eight, and nine. Trying to get all of that to rail nine and stay current. The LEAP process from seven to eight is a little bit less than desired. I've talked to some people that from once you get on eight from eight to nine to nine to 10 is a breeze. So I'm looking forward to that.

Return on Investment

  • It has done wonders for my career because I come from a Linux background, HPUX, Solaris and AIX. So made this transition to Linux 20 years ago. So it has really put my career at the forefront of what we do in the company. We're still primarily a window shop, but with Red Hat and what they're doing with the Kubernetes integration with OpenShift, with the East Satellite Management, the Ansible stuff, all based on Red Hat. It's taken off at my company and we're very happy about it.

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