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reviewer2197248 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
A stable and easy-to-use product that is much simpler than other tools
Pros and Cons
  • "The product is easy to use."
  • "The solution should provide demos so that users can learn to use it and improve their environments."

What is our primary use case?

We use the product to use the virtual servers.

What is most valuable?

Compared to Windows, the solution is much simpler. The product is easy to use.

What needs improvement?

The solution should provide demos so that users can learn to use it and improve their environments.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for three to four years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have no complaints about the stability. It is good.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have no complaints about the scalability.

What other advice do I have?

We use the on-premises solution because we work for the government. We cannot use the cloud version because we have to maintain confidentiality. We are using versions six, seven, and eight. We also use Windows in our organization. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Linux Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
An excellent and inexpensive solution with great security, stability, and performance
Pros and Cons
  • "Its security is the most valuable. It is very stable and has many features. It also has good performance. Some of our clients were using Windows servers and products. I suggested Red Hat Linux to them and described the features. They switched to it, and they really loved it. There were around 50 servers in my last company, and they switched all those servers from Windows to Red Hat. I used to manage those servers."
  • "It is mostly better than other solutions. However, it is sometimes difficult for disaster recovery, so we have to plan accordingly."

What is our primary use case?

I use it for running RAID servers, Database clusters, and a lot of other open-source tools. I have also used it as a firewall.

We have on-premises dedicated servers located in some data centers. We also have cloud servers on the public cloud. I am currently using the latest version, and I have also worked on previous versions as well as Template.

What is most valuable?

Its security is the most valuable. It is very stable and has many features. It also has good performance.

Some of our clients were using Windows servers and products. I suggested Red Hat Linux to them and described the features. They switched to it, and they really loved it. There were around 50 servers in my last company, and they switched all those servers from Windows to Red Hat. I used to manage those servers.

What needs improvement?

It is mostly better than other solutions. However, it is sometimes difficult for disaster recovery, so we have to plan accordingly.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working on Linux for the past ten years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Based on my experience, it has been stable. I did not experience any issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable. I scaled it in a way that I put a load balancer and a few servers running behind that. When working with clients, we scale or expand usage based on the need.

I used to work on and manage a website, which was just like YouTube. Around 1,000 users used to use the site, which was definitely putting a load on this server. There were around 30 servers managing the traffic. I could manage 1,000 simultaneous users.

How are customer service and technical support?

I have never used their support. I just do some research to resolve an issue.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have also used Ubuntu and CentOS in different companies and for different clients. The utilization of packages, commands, and configuration files are different in Ubuntu. For example, if you want to restart a service, the commands are different in these solutions. They also have different firewalls. Red Hat uses firewalld and Ubuntu uses ufw.

How was the initial setup?

The deployment is actually okay. It is not too easy and not too complex. It is easy for experienced people, but if you don't have the experience, it can be a little hard. 

The deployment duration depends on the type of deployment that we are doing. It could take from a day to a week or two weeks. We can also use Jenkins for auto-deployment.

What about the implementation team?

I worked with a Cloud hosting and deployment company that provided different Cloud services to their clients. They had servers based on Red Hat. It does require regular maintenance. We had a team of ten people.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Red Hat Linux is inexpensive. Linux solutions are generally inexpensive.

What other advice do I have?

I would definitely recommend this solution. It is my most preferred solution. I like using terminals, and with Red Hat, I get to work on terminals and shell commands. It has good security. 

I would rate Red Hat Linux (RHEL) an eight out of ten. I find it excellent, but no system can be 100% perfect.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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November 2024
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Growth Incubation Leader, Poland and Baltics at IBM
Vendor
Open architecture allows for accelerated growth while secure repositories guarantee stability
Pros and Cons
  • "Open architecture allows for accelerated growth while secure repositories guarantee stability."
  • "Workstations: More applications for graphics."
  • "Servers: More applications for monitoring (e.g., nmon)."

What is our primary use case?

Business: workstation and server.

How has it helped my organization?

Open architecture allows for accelerated growth while secure repositories guarantee stability.

What is most valuable?

  • Multipath
  • Yum 
  • LVM
  • Selinux

What needs improvement?

Workstations: More applications for graphics.

Servers: More applications for monitoring (e.g., nmon).

For how long have I used the solution?

More than five years.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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reviewer2107779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
Moving workloads is easy, helps save cost, and avoids cloud vendor lock-in
Pros and Cons
  • "The frequent updates are valuable."
  • "The numerous links to different pages disrupt the flow of information and make it difficult to maintain focus."

What is our primary use case?

We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux on-premises and in the cloud.

How has it helped my organization?

We are able to easily move workloads between the cloud and our data center using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux helps us avoid cloud vendor lock-in.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has helped save us costs.

What is most valuable?

The frequent updates are valuable.

What needs improvement?

The training documentation requires revision. The numerous links to different pages disrupt the flow of information and make it difficult to maintain focus.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ten 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.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is good, but they need to work on their response time.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used Windows and switched to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for flexibility and support.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is reasonable.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Red Hat Enterprise Linux eight out of ten.

We have around 20 Red Hat Enterprise Linux users in our organization.

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?

Google
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Storage and VMware Expert at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
It's improved our company's system environments that run Oracle databases.

What is most valuable?

Red Hat is mission critical to our environment.

How has it helped my organization?

Red Hat has improved the mission critical environments running Oracle databases, while CentOS has improved our web environment and MySQL.

What needs improvement?

Oracle and SAP Environment and all HPC environments.

For how long have I used the solution?

10 years

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Very stable i don´t find any problem we have many environment using redhat since first version.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Not encountered problem with scalability

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

The customer service is good and all problem was solved, i dont have any problem

Technical Support:

Very good

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We have many kinds of the linux version on the all environment but to HPC environment we use Redhat but all another versions work very well

What about the implementation team?

I work with the two scenario

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The licensing valor is too high and must be improved

What other advice do I have?

Red Hat is similar to CentOS, except that CentOS doesn't offer to support certain solutions, such as Oracle.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user715155 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Consultant
Open source stable Linux OS

What is most valuable?

Stable Linux OS. The stability of the OS is very important for the computer system. Unstable means you never know when it will crash or fail while your valuable data and business applications are running.

How has it helped my organization?

It's an open source solution.

What needs improvement?

Many areas in version 5 are obsolete such as filesystem ext2, ext3, while the new versions (v.6, 7) support ext4, Btrfs, ZFS, etc.

For how long have I used the solution?

10 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No.

How are customer service and technical support?

No technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

No.

How was the initial setup?

No.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

No more support and licensing.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

No.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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