We performed a comparison between Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: RHEL excels in setup, integration, security updates, and application support. However, it falls short in terms of documentation, pricing, and customer support. SUSE Linux Enterprise is praised for its simplicity, flexibility, user-friendliness, and customer support. It needs improvement in GUI, pricing competitiveness, and integration.
"The systems are just bulletproof. We do not have problems with it. Support for file system differences and migrations has been solid."
"The integrated solution approach reduces our TCO tremendously because we are able to focus on innovation instead of operations."
"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."
"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 containerized platform will help us use ROSA."
"The enterprise support of the product is valuable to us."
"We're very happy with the amount of security customization we've been able to do with RHEL. The fact that Red Hat is really on top of security issues is also valuable. We get daily emails from Red Hat letting us know of possible issues and fixes, which is incredibly helpful for us."
"The product is super easy to use."
"It also was very easy to setup, and offered an easy to use advanced setup option as well. This helped to create special configurations for different use cases."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the installation part...We don't face any issues related to the operating system or application."
"The solution is easy to use, secure and allows for simple manipulation."
"Out-of-the-box SLES supported all of our HBAs and hardware specific components."
"The most valuable feature is that there is an inbuilt HANA firewall."
"Linux is easy to use. You have more control on a Unix system."
"The technical support services are good."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux analytics are cryptic."
"I would like to see the GNOME system monitor feature, which shows CPU usage and other aspects. It will help to save time."
"Upgrading between versions needs to be easier."
"I want RHEL to stick to the open-source routes. As a company, we experience challenges in managing the budget."
"Currently, there is a gap in the file system management. I want to be able to expand the file system in a simpler way and have the application or the database use that expansion without any downtime."
"Some of the repositories and some of the DNS versions are very old. I just deployed something using Ruby and the DNS stable repository was sufficiently old that the Ruby project I was using didn't work."
"I would like Insight to include some features from OpenSCAP, which they offer for compliance services. I played with it a little bit, but haven't gotten the updated setup to get that. It creates excellent documentation."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's monitoring could be improved. I would like additional monitoring features, like a greater ability to monitor services and workloads running. Satellite can provide centralized monitoring of subscriptions and deployments. You can build a monitoring console, but there is no native monitoring."
"The solution could be more stable."
"SUSE Linux could provide more information about cost and the details of how clustering works."
"We previously had trouble integrating Autodesk with the SUSE Manager, but the issue was resolved."
"Red Hat has more packages that are available than SUSE does. I'd love to see more projects based on SUSE."
"The only stability issues that I can recall encountering with SUSE would be with KDE. However, that is limited to just the desktop environment as I have not had stability issues with most server functions."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"When working in a Department of Defense environment, Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) have to be followed. SLES is not really addressed directly here. It did make following security policy difficult."
"They should provide chatbot support for customers to open the troubleshooting cases directly."
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 179 reviews while SUSE Linux Enterprise is ranked 6th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 26 reviews. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is rated 8.8, while SUSE Linux Enterprise is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) writes "Highly stable, good knowledge base, and reasonable price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SUSE Linux Enterprise writes "Stable product compatible with multiple cloud service providers ". Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Windows Server, Ubuntu Linux, Windows 10, Oracle Linux and CentOS, whereas SUSE Linux Enterprise is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, openSUSE Leap, Oracle Linux, CentOS and Rocky Linux. See our Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) vs. SUSE Linux Enterprise report.
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