Learn what your peers think about Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: November 2024.
Test Automation Infrastructure Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees
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Top 20
2023-10-23T22:43:00Z
Oct 23, 2023
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 updates the Cipher Suites and the security proceeds it. I wasn't pleasantly surprised because a bunch of our server communication didn't work. Having the Cipher Suites updated is a good thing but was not convenient.
Security Architect at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
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2023-10-23T22:33:00Z
Oct 23, 2023
It eases the burden by restricting the use of open-source Linux and preventing the development community from obtaining their own images. This is crucial for maintaining a secure supply chain and ensuring the lockdown of live Linux packages.
Application Developer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
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Top 20
2023-10-23T22:24:00Z
Oct 23, 2023
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is certainly more secure than AIX, which is what we had. It's also better than Solaris. It has improved from that perspective. We can handle the vulnerabilities better. It's more secure.
Associate Director SAP Infrastructure Solution at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
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2023-10-23T22:18:00Z
Oct 23, 2023
We also use Ansible. Ansible is a wonderful tool for automation. We use it to automate our patching. We use Ansible to get playbooks to take care of anything that's manual.
Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
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2023-10-17T12:58:00Z
Oct 17, 2023
We have access to the Red Hat knowledge base. We have frequent meetings with Red Hat. Red Hat partners provided us with all the information and any kind of training.
Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
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2023-10-17T12:46:00Z
Oct 17, 2023
One pro is that at the operating system layer, like, RHEL has better support from Red Hat, and if something goes down, I found many resources for troubleshooting and stuff online.
Senior Service Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Top 20
2023-05-28T13:18:00Z
May 28, 2023
With Red Hat, the community is so robust. Most of the time, while waiting for a Red Hat engineer to call us back, the solution to the issue is already provided.
Director at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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2023-05-28T13:18:00Z
May 28, 2023
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we use Red Hat Satellite as part of all the patching and deployment, even from on-premises and AWS, and that's been really helpful since it is one product that can be used in a hybrid environment.
The solution's operating systems are phenomenally resilient and stable. The good part is that Red Hat has backing and support. Also, combined with IBM, it gives more confidence to my customers.
Director Security Engineering at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
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2023-05-28T09:40:00Z
May 28, 2023
We run Satellite on a lot of these, so having a central repository that we can use for patch management and remote execution is huge. That's something that is very difficult in a Windows environment. We're very compliance driven, so to have that built into Red Hat is easy. We don't need an agent or anything like that to get a lot of work done, so Satellite and centralized automation are the most valuable features for us.
Platform Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
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Top 20
2023-05-28T09:37:00Z
May 28, 2023
By implementing Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we wanted to solve some of the reboot problems of Windows. Every patch on Windows affected our applications because the system had to be rebooted. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has improved the uptime of the applications.
UNIX/Intel/ARM manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
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2023-05-28T09:35:00Z
May 28, 2023
I prefer it to Windows because of the level of configuration, level of control, and the ability to see the performance of processes on a given system. I prefer the control over logging and the ability that logging gives you to investigate a problem.
Senior Linux Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
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2023-05-28T09:23:00Z
May 28, 2023
The robust networking capabilities offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux were highly valuable. They have numerous partnerships and dedicated efforts in low-latency technologies, which are particularly beneficial for trading firms. They possess extensive expertise in external tuning and similar aspects.
Senior System Engineer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
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2023-05-28T09:13:00Z
May 28, 2023
It's a rock-solid operating system. We don't need anything fancy from the operating system itself. What we need is something that doesn't crash, stays up to date, and provides the security features that we need to keep external players out.
Cloud Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
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2023-05-28T09:02:00Z
May 28, 2023
One of the main reasons we chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux was its reliability and stability. Compared to the Microsoft Windows environment, the Linux environment provided much greater stability.
Virtualization and Cloud Solutions Architect at a university with 10,001+ employees
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Top 5
2023-03-29T15:51:00Z
Mar 29, 2023
Because most databases run on Linux, that's what makes this solution so important. If you install a Unix system and want to use a database, you won't have to say, 'I can't find any database to run on this.'
Enterprise Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
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2023-02-12T18:12:00Z
Feb 12, 2023
Aside from security, the advantage of Red Hat as compared to the other distributions is the availability of support and patching. When you have an enterprise subscription with Red Hat, you get support and patching.
I like its integrations. I would put it higher than any other Linux version when it comes to availability. Its integrations with different applications and solutions are the best. We work with a lot of clients that use RHEL, and we could easily and quickly integrate any cloud solution, virtualization solution, storage solution, or software with the RHEL system. It is better than the other solutions we have worked with.
Virtualization Specialist with 501-1,000 employees
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2022-11-06T23:37:00Z
Nov 6, 2022
It enables us to achieve security compliance. Our security team is quite happy, especially in terms of patching up our servers, etc. It's compliant with our security requirements.
Sr IT Solution Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
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2022-10-11T08:21:00Z
Oct 11, 2022
RHEL has made our operations more reliable by giving us a more repeatable process. After we've built it once, we know it will work the same way the next time we build it. It has reduced the time I spend training my operations team, and the cost of ownership is low.
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
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2022-10-09T22:43:00Z
Oct 9, 2022
Red Hat support is pretty good. They're online, so you can look up things once you have support. Their AB integration has improved. It's easy to manage storage for moving, syncing LBM, etc.
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Reseller
2022-08-24T22:55:00Z
Aug 24, 2022
The Red Hat support is most valuable. My team and I are really good at Linux, and we can do almost everything in any kind of Linux solution, but sometimes, we have a really nasty problem, and the Red Hat engineering support at the third level has been fantastic. They know how to fix almost everything. The reason why I pay so much money to them is to have this kind of service and assurance.
The most valuable thing about Red Hat is its stability, uptime, and support for various hardware vendors. Linux servers, in general, are relatively secure and they are more secure than Windows and other products.
The most valuable features are stability
and supportability... You want to have something that's up and running and stable, something that's not going to crash. But if we do have an issue, we can get somebody for technical support who can help us work through the problems.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Consultant
2022-03-22T14:58:00Z
Mar 22, 2022
Automation is the most valuable feature. I don't like having to solve a problem more than once. If I can just whip up some code to take care of deploying something, responding to something, etc., then that is what I prefer. It is a lot easier out-of-the-box to do than it is with Windows. With Windows, there is always the process of bootstrapping into being able to have the automation framework available, then making the automation framework work.
Sr. Designer Data at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
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2022-03-18T23:24:00Z
Mar 18, 2022
The most valuable feature is the Identity Management. You pay almost the same subscription cost for normal RHEL and you get the central Identity Management. You would need to pay much more if you were using other applications or products like Active Directory from Microsoft.
The AppStream feature provides access to up-to-date languages and tools in a way that interoperates with third-party source code. It makes it a lot easier to maintain that, as well as keeps our developers happy by having newer versions of development languages available.
Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture at CommScope
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2022-03-17T00:29:00Z
Mar 17, 2022
We use this product's built-in tracing and monitoring tools such as syslog and SAR (system activity reporter) to provide us with greater insight and visibility into what's going on.
Systems Administrator at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
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2022-03-15T13:02:00Z
Mar 15, 2022
One of the most important features is the package manager. It provides the ability to very easily roll back transactions when something has gone wrong. It is an easy-to-use tool that helps me in situations where something unexpected has happened. I found that this was one of the solution's major advantages over other distributions.
The biggest benefit is from a security standpoint. As the product progresses and they come up with new versions, the new security features are addressing vulnerabilities. From that perspective, it has worked well.
RHEL enables us to deploy applications and emerging workloads across bare-metal and virtualized environments and I find those workloads to be extremely reliable. The reliability is so good that I rarely find myself calling Red Hat support any longer. Support is the first benefit of using RHEL, but the second thing is that the platform is so stable that the need to use support is negligible.
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Real User
2021-12-14T00:35:00Z
Dec 14, 2021
Its scalability and ease of setup and configuration are most valuable. When we have a hardware failure, we just save the configuration files, and in about half an hour, we have another server running with the same configuration. It is really easy to replace servers. This is the best feature.
Senior Information Technology System Analyst at National center of meterology
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2021-09-05T14:09:00Z
Sep 5, 2021
It is a well-established operating system. We have tried to implement almost every feature of a version in our environment, and it has been very reliable. We are not facing many production issues on a day-to-day basis. They have well-documented articles on their documentation site and a knowledge base on their website. When we need to implement anything, we are able to find information about the best practices and the solution.
The feature that I like the most is that we can integrate it easily with our existing infrastructure. We found that it is much easier to deploy RHEL in our environment compared to a competing distribution like Ubuntu.
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.
The solution has features that simplify adoption for non-Linux users. There is an interface that you can activate on RHEL systems, and on other Linux systems as well, so that you will get a graphical user interface instead of just a shell. It's easier for an administrator who is used to only working on Windows.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a stable and reliable open-source operating system for running application servers, databases, web servers, and production systems. It is also used for cloud infrastructure services, BI, and disaster assistance. Its valuable features include support and subscription, ease of management and troubleshooting, integration with existing infrastructure, security updates and hardening tools, scalability, and flexibility.
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It is open source. We can customize it as per our requirements.
It is a stable solution.
The security of the OS is the most valuable feature.
Red Hat is open source, so what we get with Red Hat Enterprise Linux is valuable support that is not included in the free version.
The most valuable feature is the OpenShift platform.
The integration with Oracle is the most valuable feature.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a reliable operating system that can run for long periods of time without any issues.
The knowledge base they offer has proven to be quite efficient and we haven't encountered any significant challenges.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 updates the Cipher Suites and the security proceeds it. I wasn't pleasantly surprised because a bunch of our server communication didn't work. Having the Cipher Suites updated is a good thing but was not convenient.
It eases the burden by restricting the use of open-source Linux and preventing the development community from obtaining their own images. This is crucial for maintaining a secure supply chain and ensuring the lockdown of live Linux packages.
One of the most valuable features is the package manager because it makes it easier to keep everything up to date.
It has improved our organization. It has standardized processes.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is certainly more secure than AIX, which is what we had. It's also better than Solaris. It has improved from that perspective. We can handle the vulnerabilities better. It's more secure.
We also use Ansible. Ansible is a wonderful tool for automation. We use it to automate our patching. We use Ansible to get playbooks to take care of anything that's manual.
While using it, we encountered far fewer complexities, and the entire process is much smoother and streamlined.
It's been great since we have it. It's been reliable and fast.
We use RHEL in our infrastructure, which consists of VM and Linux. We use it to create clusters.
We are a Managed Service Provider. Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables us not to be worried about vulnerabilities, security, and patching.
The containerized platform will help us use ROSA.
The tool is simple and easy to use. It has good support and doesn't have many outages due to the OS.
We have access to the Red Hat knowledge base. We have frequent meetings with Red Hat. Red Hat partners provided us with all the information and any kind of training.
It is hardware-independent. We can use Dell, HPE, or any other hardware. It is also more reasonable than the other operating systems.
The most valuable features of RHEL are security, performance tuning, storage management, and OS-level automation.
One pro is that at the operating system layer, like, RHEL has better support from Red Hat, and if something goes down, I found many resources for troubleshooting and stuff online.
The solution provides more detailed control.
The support and the stability are Red Hat Enterprise Linux's most valuable areas.
We have support. If we have any issues with the distro, we can call their support team.
It is very stable and robust.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is very stable. It has been in the market for so many years, and it is used by large organizations.
It's more stable than the other operating systems.
With Red Hat, the community is so robust. Most of the time, while waiting for a Red Hat engineer to call us back, the solution to the issue is already provided.
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we use Red Hat Satellite as part of all the patching and deployment, even from on-premises and AWS, and that's been really helpful since it is one product that can be used in a hybrid environment.
Resiliency-wise, the solution is very good.
I have seen a return on investment, especially considering the time taken to resolve the problem where we bought some support from Red Hat.
The solution's operating systems are phenomenally resilient and stable. The good part is that Red Hat has backing and support. Also, combined with IBM, it gives more confidence to my customers.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux's most valuable features are the Podman and a lot of packages that come inbuilt as part of the regular package.
We run Satellite on a lot of these, so having a central repository that we can use for patch management and remote execution is huge. That's something that is very difficult in a Windows environment. We're very compliance driven, so to have that built into Red Hat is easy. We don't need an agent or anything like that to get a lot of work done, so Satellite and centralized automation are the most valuable features for us.
By implementing Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we wanted to solve some of the reboot problems of Windows. Every patch on Windows affected our applications because the system had to be rebooted. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has improved the uptime of the applications.
I prefer it to Windows because of the level of configuration, level of control, and the ability to see the performance of processes on a given system. I prefer the control over logging and the ability that logging gives you to investigate a problem.
Everything is just stable and works well.
The knowledge base is excellent.
The solution’s stability is its most valuable feature.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux's most valuable feature is that it comes with all the tools we need to set up and maintain an enterprise-grade system.
The robust networking capabilities offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux were highly valuable. They have numerous partnerships and dedicated efforts in low-latency technologies, which are particularly beneficial for trading firms. They possess extensive expertise in external tuning and similar aspects.
The biggest thing that I have found valuable is stability.
The most valuable feature is the reliability of Red Hat's support.
The most valuable features are ease of support and the ability to run a read-only course on the operating system.
It's a rock-solid operating system. We don't need anything fancy from the operating system itself. What we need is something that doesn't crash, stays up to date, and provides the security features that we need to keep external players out.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a good file system type and good kernels.
One of the main reasons we chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux was its reliability and stability. Compared to the Microsoft Windows environment, the Linux environment provided much greater stability.
With regard to security, most companies are moving towards the black box approach and Red Hat. It's much more secure compared to the other vendors.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is lightweight and can be run on almost anything.
Because most databases run on Linux, that's what makes this solution so important. If you install a Unix system and want to use a database, you won't have to say, 'I can't find any database to run on this.'
Aside from security, the advantage of Red Hat as compared to the other distributions is the availability of support and patching. When you have an enterprise subscription with Red Hat, you get support and patching.
Management is portable and easily automated so deploying or installing packages and running updates is seamless.
I like its integrations. I would put it higher than any other Linux version when it comes to availability. Its integrations with different applications and solutions are the best. We work with a lot of clients that use RHEL, and we could easily and quickly integrate any cloud solution, virtualization solution, storage solution, or software with the RHEL system. It is better than the other solutions we have worked with.
RHEL'S built in security features have helped us reduce risk and maintenance compliance.
The solution's use of Kubernetes as an internal or core process on the system is brilliant.
The flexible and extensive system makes it easy to cluster, check redundancies, and perform data backups.
The solution is useful for application support and automations.
It enables us to achieve security compliance. Our security team is quite happy, especially in terms of patching up our servers, etc. It's compliant with our security requirements.
The security it provides is one of the most important features, as are the support and the documentation. The latter helps me to do everything.
RHEL has made our operations more reliable by giving us a more repeatable process. After we've built it once, we know it will work the same way the next time we build it. It has reduced the time I spend training my operations team, and the cost of ownership is low.
Red Hat support is pretty good. They're online, so you can look up things once you have support. Their AB integration has improved. It's easy to manage storage for moving, syncing LBM, etc.
The security features are better than many other solutions offer.
The Red Hat support is most valuable. My team and I are really good at Linux, and we can do almost everything in any kind of Linux solution, but sometimes, we have a really nasty problem, and the Red Hat engineering support at the third level has been fantastic. They know how to fix almost everything. The reason why I pay so much money to them is to have this kind of service and assurance.
The most valuable thing about Red Hat is its stability, uptime, and support for various hardware vendors. Linux servers, in general, are relatively secure and they are more secure than Windows and other products.
The most valuable features are stability
and supportability... You want to have something that's up and running and stable, something that's not going to crash. But if we do have an issue, we can get somebody for technical support who can help us work through the problems.
Automation is the most valuable feature. I don't like having to solve a problem more than once. If I can just whip up some code to take care of deploying something, responding to something, etc., then that is what I prefer. It is a lot easier out-of-the-box to do than it is with Windows. With Windows, there is always the process of bootstrapping into being able to have the automation framework available, then making the automation framework work.
The most valuable feature is the Identity Management. You pay almost the same subscription cost for normal RHEL and you get the central Identity Management. You would need to pay much more if you were using other applications or products like Active Directory from Microsoft.
The AppStream feature provides access to up-to-date languages and tools in a way that interoperates with third-party source code. It makes it a lot easier to maintain that, as well as keeps our developers happy by having newer versions of development languages available.
We use this product's built-in tracing and monitoring tools such as syslog and SAR (system activity reporter) to provide us with greater insight and visibility into what's going on.
One of the most important features is the package manager. It provides the ability to very easily roll back transactions when something has gone wrong. It is an easy-to-use tool that helps me in situations where something unexpected has happened. I found that this was one of the solution's major advantages over other distributions.
The biggest benefit is from a security standpoint. As the product progresses and they come up with new versions, the new security features are addressing vulnerabilities. From that perspective, it has worked well.
RHEL enables us to deploy applications and emerging workloads across bare-metal and virtualized environments and I find those workloads to be extremely reliable. The reliability is so good that I rarely find myself calling Red Hat support any longer. Support is the first benefit of using RHEL, but the second thing is that the platform is so stable that the need to use support is negligible.
Its scalability and ease of setup and configuration are most valuable. When we have a hardware failure, we just save the configuration files, and in about half an hour, we have another server running with the same configuration. It is really easy to replace servers. This is the best feature.
It is a well-established operating system. We have tried to implement almost every feature of a version in our environment, and it has been very reliable. We are not facing many production issues on a day-to-day basis. They have well-documented articles on their documentation site and a knowledge base on their website. When we need to implement anything, we are able to find information about the best practices and the solution.
This is a very robust product that doesn't require a lot of handling. It just works.
The feature that I like the most is that we can integrate it easily with our existing infrastructure. We found that it is much easier to deploy RHEL in our environment compared to a competing distribution like Ubuntu.
We find the Red Hat Satellite deployments very useful. It integrates well with other solutions.
The integrated solution approach reduces our TCO tremendously because we are able to focus on innovation instead of operations.
Customer support is 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.
The solution has features that simplify adoption for non-Linux users. There is an interface that you can activate on RHEL systems, and on other Linux systems as well, so that you will get a graphical user interface instead of just a shell. It's easier for an administrator who is used to only working on Windows.