Offers role-based access and the ability to seamlessly connect multiple systems with ease
What is our primary use case?
I work as a consultant for a bank. They were using another type of Linux and facing some scripting issues. We are using Ansible for infrastructure, but they depend on different languages. In this fintech use case, the bank performs transactions between two banks. The transactions were getting stuck, but they detected that the money had been transferred.
The money comes from the bank. They transport it from the cloud and deliver it to the channels like Visa, MasterCard, etc. The national bank is also involved at that stage, so there is a pause. When we are using auto-scaling, it requires a small amount of time, so your application will have an error. This is a millisecond process. That is the duration. We were looking for issues like bank fraud. You need to conduct an analysis and restart the service. The data is on Red Hat Linux, and we use EKS for containerization.
We have a hybrid solution combining AWS with an on-premise environment. Moving data to the cloud requires a stable connection because we have multiple systems on-premises and on the cloud. This platform helped us communicate among multiple clouds and our private cloud network.
How has it helped my organization?
Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables us to subscribe to other Red Hat services from our portal. We can connect to Satellite with single sign-on logins. We can use the Spring CLI call and the Docker hub. We have a direct subscription.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has helped us avoid cloud vendor lock-in. We could easily migrate between cloud services from AWS to Azure if we wanted to. Everything is an SCL, so we could deploy the same thing on another cloud. It's highly useful. We can make a script and move the entire infrastructure.
What is most valuable?
The Red Hat Linux comes with Anaconda, a fascinating tool that is useful if I need to connect multiple systems. I also like role-based access.
What needs improvement?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a little expensive for some customers who don't have the budget. It depends on the client. They can save money by not purchasing some of the added packages and services. If the client has a budget of $10 million, we can go for the whole bundle.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used 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.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is scalable, but it depends on the deployment.
How are customer service and support?
I rate Red Hat support 10 out of 10. I'm a big fan.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have used Ubuntu, which has its own cloud service. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a better option if the client has a budget. Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be certified and meet compliance requirements.
How was the initial setup?
Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux is straightforward, but the complexity and time required depend on whether we are deploying on a virtual machine or a desktop. If we have the correct documentation, the total process can be completed in three to five days.
I have used the Image Builder Tool, but in the latest deployment, I pulled down the repository from the Docker hub. We use our own XML file and create the repository. It's a two or three-day design process for Red Hat Linux. We need one data resource for that process and a second engineer on the support side if we want to set up more servers from their on-site services.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's affordable, but everything costs money. At the same time, everything adds value for our clients. For example, I was working on a machine-learning project, and they needed more team resources, and all the projects used computing power. By running multiple clusters, the client exceeded the rate for that data. We buy services from AWS, the Azure Marketplace, or directly from Red Hat.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Red Hat Enterprise Linux nine out of 10. I recommend buying the services in a package if you can afford it. If the client doesn't have the budget, we can find alternatives. It depends on the client's needs.
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What do you like best about the product?
Red Hat enterprise Linux is best choice for highly critical workloads as it provide stability, long term support(upto 10 years) so that you have enough time for migration to new releases and last but not the least is its Enterprise 24x7 support which prevent your SLAs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Red hat enterprise Linux main focus is stability so you miss out the new software updates. Another important factor is cost, you have the open source CentOS distribution available for free but that doesn't come with any support so it is good for small businesses where you are not running any critical workloads.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We want our production Linux server to be available 24x7 and with maximum uptime for data transfer between onprem to cloud and vice versa and RHEL is helping us in running out databrokers in an efficient way which transfers the data. It provides us data backups across multiple environment which will help us in Disaster recovery scenarios.
RHEL a really good UNIX based OS
What do you like best about the product?
RHEL is much lighter than typical windows OS. once you start working on this you will love it more day by day. After regular updates and upgrades the features are top class and support much softwares now. And Linux OS are absolutely freely available on inter5and free to use allowing to customise it your own way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such to dislike RHEL. If asked before would have one two points but nothing now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As it's open source and freely available on internet it's reducing cost of organisation on operating system. It's easy to use and customisable.
Easy to use with good command line capabilities and offers easy access for admins
What is our primary use case?
We have almost thirteen servers. There are SaaS applications installed on this server. We leverage Java and the functionality during installation. We install it on the platform and configure it there. Some are custom applications. Our database is also in the Red Hat Linux environment.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution offers users easy access. It's very simple to have and use, from an admin perspective.
What is most valuable?
The offering provides me with all I need to serve the operation in terms of usage and capabilities.
The general user commands are good. They are helpful for starting and stopping applications and restarting and editing files. The maintenance of user-level processes is easy.
We're not using it in a graphical environment, we're only using command line mode. There may be a lot of features, however, I don't use everything since I don't need to.
There are millions of commands you can use, although we use only five or ten.
Likely the solution has helped our organization save on costs. I'm not sure by how much, as I don't have visibility into that aspect.
It's very easy to use across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. Specifically, on the cloud side, I have noted it's quite easy. Also, on a virtual machine, you can create a cloud version of your infrastructure in a minute.
What needs improvement?
For my work, the solution is not missing any features. We;re only using the command line and that is enough for us.
Maybe they need to make it easier to apply patches from different resources. That said, at my level of usage, I never have to apply patches.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for almost ten years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
While I'm maintaining 30 servers, there are hundreds of servers in use.
The scalability is good. We are able to increase capacity and functionality based on our demands.
I'm not sure if the company has plans to increase usage in the future.
How are customer service and support?
I don't directly deal with technical support. I might send a ticket to my side, and if they have to, they would be the ones to reach out to Red Hat.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used Oracle Linux before we moved over to Red Hat Linux. We likely switched due to costs and licensing. We also use Windows extensively. Since we used the same architecture, we didn't need to use any third-party applications.
How was the initial setup?
As an admin, I was not involved in the setup process.
If there is any maintenance needed, we get support from the Red Hat team. If anything comes up on the operating side, our team will take care of it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I'm only using this solution as an admin and, therefore, have no visibility on costs.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did not evaluate other options before choosing this solution.
What other advice do I have?
I'm an end-user of the solution. I had admin-level access to the product.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not enable us to achieve security standard certification.
I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
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What do you like best about the product?
Redhat provides good support for RHEL. Patching can be done manually using yum/dnf commands or using Redhat Satellite server and Ansible. Redhat satellite server also used to manage licensing of redhat Operating system. Compared to other linux, it is mostly used and acquired by IBM which is also a leader in services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Redhat Linux products pricing has increased robustly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Patching can be done manually or can be done automatically using Redhat satellite server or Ansible. Licensing is easier to manage as well. Redhat is integrated with several other tools like Openshift
Super product
What do you like best about the product?
It gives the very high level of security and there is no lagging or slowness
What do you dislike about the product?
It is all good about this no dislike but people need to learn a little bit before using it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Other operating system is little slower compare to Red hat.
Best Linux operating system
What do you like best about the product?
The best I like about Red Hat Linux is:
- Easy to use
- Both UI and CLI Interface
- Economical
- Timely updates and upgrades
What do you dislike about the product?
The downsides are:
- It is paid
- UI is not that good compared to Windows
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RHEL is helping me run servers to host our website. The performance is excellent and this translates into an amazing end user experience
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What do you like best about the product?
It's provide more security then other os.
Easy to use for people who familier with previos version of Linux.
What do you dislike about the product?
You need learn to if you are new to use this os or require knowlege of Linux machine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It will give you Enterprise base solution with security.
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What do you like best about the product?
Red hat provied a very safe enviroment for your application which is very easy to use and easy to implement as well. Moreover it n number of features makes it easy to integrate with multiple security sytems as well which increases its frequency of use and they have very good customer support as well which is available round the clock.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some packages which is not compatible with linux enviroment which sometimes makes a blocker in work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps in solving my day to day job.
Enables users to increase the file systems dynamically and provides excellent support and subscription models
What is our primary use case?
I work in infrastructure. We have various use cases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We use it for the compute feature, which runs on some applications on the front end and databases on the back end.
What is most valuable?
LVM is a valuable feature. It enables us to dynamically increase the file systems or logical volumes. My journey with this feature started 10 to 12 years ago.
LVM is the reason why I started using the solution initially. Nowadays, there are a lot of applications. We can use clustering, security, and optimize security.
What needs improvement?
The product's availability is on the main cloud hyperscalers, like GCP, IBM Cloud, Azure, and AWS. The product should be made available on Oracle Cloud.
I would like to see Ansible as a default in future releases.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for 13 to 14 years.
How are customer service and support?
Although some questions are not business-critical and high priority, they are still urgent. The support identifies such questions as P3 or P4 incidents. Although there's no business impact, we depend on the support team for answers.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have used SUSE Linux. We have also used open-source tools like Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS. We switched to Red Hat Enterprise Linux due to its vast exposure to security vulnerabilities. Its support model, subscription model, and its support for HANA are valuable.
What other advice do I have?
We use the product on-premise, on IBM Cloud, and on Azure. The subscription model of the solution enables us to use hybrid environments. We can enjoy the benefits of the hybrid environment with the bring-your-own-subscription model.
We have plans for upgrades. We have a legacy Red Hat Enterprise Linux. One of the customers has version 5. We are trying to build an upgrade plan for it. We would like to know whether we can directly land on version 9 or if we should go step by step to each version.
The solution's built-in security features are exciting. I like that the solution covers the recent vulnerabilities in the CVEs. The solution should continue to do that.
Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.
