We performed a comparison between Oracle Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Operating Systems (OS) for Business solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its networking has helped me combine the power of a neural network with the benefits of virtualization to improve the AI's performance."
"The backup capabilities are quite good."
"Oracle Solaris is great due to the fact that it actually is meant for high-end servers."
"Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting."
"Oracle Solaris was the preferred operating system for their customers to run their databases on and to get the best performance. It performs well with Oracle applications. Additionally, there are some features inside that are called zones which are Linux containers."
"The product's most valuable feature is partitioning resources and optimizing hardware utilization effectively."
"It works well. It is very stable and very good. It is also very safe. It cannot be easily infected by viruses or attacks."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we haven't faced any issues."
"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 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 biggest thing that I have found valuable is stability."
"The most valuable features are ease of support and the ability to run a read-only course on the operating system."
"There are some nice integrations with scanning for vulnerabilities. That is the feature I have enjoyed the most because I am a security person, and that is my bread and butter."
"We have support. If we have any issues with the distro, we can call their support team."
"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."
"I like the speed of the OS data and the ease of Ansible automation. I don't need to spend much time managing everything."
"There is an issue where Solaris doesn't give the correct figures for memory use when checked."
"More monitoring tools could be included in the product."
"They could also enable Oracle OEM for x86 architecture as well."
"Currently, there are two variants, there's SPARC and there's x86. I would have wanted a scenario where they're all just one product."
"Oracle Solaris can improve by supporting all the recent features that are in the market from other competitors."
"Solaris is not easy to use. It needs better GUI, UI, and configuration tools."
"I would love to see improvements in SVM, so file systems could be increased or migrated without downtime to the environment, similar to what ZFS is capable of."
"The challenge arises from the differences in commands and configurations compared to more common systems like Linux."
"The product should provide a portal to manage licenses."
"From a cloud perspective, I'm looking for more integrations with native cloud services. For example, the ability to use native Azure Key Vault instead of Ansible Key Vault or Red Hat Key Vault."
"I would mostly like to see improvement around corporate messaging. When Red Hat 8 came out, and Red Hat decided to change, it inverted the relationship between Red Hat and CentOS. This caused my customers who had a CentOS to RHEL development to production workflow quite a bit of heartburn that several of them are still working out. A lot of that probably could have been avoided through better messaging."
"The solution could provide more APIs and GUI interfaces."
"I'm not sure how the support is being changed in terms of needing to pay for it. That's an area that can be improved. They should offer support without charging users for it."
"I believe it would be beneficial to notify the customer in advance of any planned maintenance so that we can better coordinate and plan our customer interactions accordingly."
"In the past and with older versions, you couldn't expand the root file system without rebooting the server or restarting the operating system. That is something that they have actually corrected now, which is great. They corrected that issue somewhere around RHEL 7."
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization isn't up to the mark as compared to VMware and Hyper-V, but they're moving everything on OpenShift for containers and virtual machines, which is stable. If you go into the virtualization layer, they still need to improve a lot of things, but with regards to OpenShift, containers, Docker, and other things, they are doing well."
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Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 48 reviews while Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 179 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Oracle Solaris writes "Improve flexibility, automate DR process, and speed up recovery time using Zones". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) writes "Highly stable, good knowledge base, and reasonable price". Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Windows 10, SUSE Linux Enterprise and CentOS, whereas Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Windows Server, Ubuntu Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows 10 and openSUSE Leap. See our Oracle Solaris vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) report.
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