CentOS Scalability

MohammedThousif Ansari - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Tata Communications Ltd

It's very scalable. It's open-source.

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Arif-Kundi - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at BazTech

My company used to host email servers with the help of CentOS. There were around 400 users of the product in our company.

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AQ
Senior System Admin at Tepco-Group

It is a scalable solution. When testing the product, I found its scalability features very stable while considering its impact on the testing phase I was involved in with the tool.

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CentOS
April 2024
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Vijay Muddu - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager server admin and security at Vivaconnect

The solution scales well. 

We have about 50 or more systems set up in our organization. I'm not sure how many users are on it. 

I'm not sure if we have plans to increase usage right now. 

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Ayman Allam - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps and Automation Lead | Technical Expert at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is scalable. I'd rate the scalability nine out of ten. 

I'm not sure how many people are using the solution in my company. 

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Sajjad Raza - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President | Services Group Leader at Afiniti

There are 1,000 people using the solution. 

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Yilmaz Cagri Isbuga - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Owner at Tekbilge Internet Technologies Ltd & IDA LTD

It's scalable. I would rate the scalability as nine out of ten.

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Erick-Guevara - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Server Manager at Centro Nacional de Registros

It is a scalable solution. 

We do not have plans to increase usage. We may, in fact, reduce usage as we migrate. We are trying to migrate to Kubernetes however this is a very slow plan. For maybe three or five years, we will continue using Red Hat or CentOS.

We have about ten people using the solution. They are IT administrators. 

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BB
Senior Unix System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is extremely scalable. We have about 200 people using it at this point, mostly engineers or database guys.

We'll probably have a minor increase in usage, but not a huge increase in how many nodes we'll have.

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Kevin Honde - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Solution Architect at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

It's scalable.

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MM
Group CEO at Mmusi Group

CentOS is a scalable solution.

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VM
Cloud solution architect at 0

The solution is very scalable. CentOS is very good for any microservices or any application that has an auto scalability mechanism available. The number of users usually depends on how many users can access the OS through the network based on the bandwidth.

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RS
Group Manager at HCL Technologies

We have found that the solution can scale.

Our company has 15 to 20 users leveraging it right now.

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VivekSaini - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at Aon Corporation

I've never scaled it or tried to. That said, it must be. It is just a replica of Red Hat, and therefore it must be.

I use the solution myself, for personal use. My business unit is using this product and we may expand it to one or two more people. We wouldn't scale up to more than that.

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Ibidapo Ibrahim - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've never scaled or clustered in any way, although I do have it in multiple systems. 

I do not have plans to increase usage since that changed the way the licensing works. 

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DM
Head of Department of operational and compliance at ACE GABON

The solution is scalable.

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SulaimanMustapha - PeerSpot reviewer
CRS at Kneedrag

This solution is very scalable, you simply add a node and expand a cluster so that you can scale out on your containerization.

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Phat Chau - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at EASY CREDIT Vietnam

We have five CentOS customers. It is a scalable and cost-effective product compared to public cloud solutions.

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MI
Chief Product Officer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The scalability could be better. It doesn't scale that well. I'd rate the scalability seven or eight out of ten.

We have around 50 people, our support team, using the solution. 

Our support team deploys the solution on the customer side to assist customers, so the amount of usage would depend on the number of customers we have.

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Muhammad-Mwinchande - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at NMB Bank

CentOS is scalable. However, it is depending on the deployment. We use Docker for our applications so we have not scaled the solution, but if the bandwidth is good then CentOS can be scaled.

Our entire company infrastructure is using CentOS. When I host an application, it's usable by about 1,000 people.

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Victor Sibanda - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Equilogic Technologies

The solution is very scalable. We started using one machine with two nodes but scaled it up to four nodes. 

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DM
3D Artist at Daromex

I usually work with smaller companies. Therefore, I don’t have issues with scaling. For me, it scales. I’m using one or two-tera hard drives, and it works well with no issues.

I have one client with ten users and other clients who have a bit less than that in terms of users.

We do not have plans to increase usage.

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SK
Group DWH and BI Senior Manager at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa

CentOS is scalable.

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Cuneyt Gurses - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer at sonne technology

It's scalable.

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RK
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable, however, if you would like to expand, you may need to pay for a business license. 

in terms of administration, 20 to 30 people use the solution.

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Taher Dungrawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery head at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

The scalability of CentOS is good.

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Aakash Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Architect at HCL Technologies

We use CentOS on a VM, so it's fixed usage.

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D6B8 - PeerSpot reviewer
District Technology at INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

Yes and no. In regards to the OS itself, there aren't any scalability issues. We have run into issues with other applications but that's not the fault of CentOS, rather, it is the application that would need to be revised.

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Evans Choge - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Administrator at Jambopay

The solution is scalable. Approximately 1000 users are utilizing the solution.

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VP
Technial Lead at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

It is one of the top-notch products in terms of scalability. For scalability, many premium features are available.

Currently, we have around 12 to 15 users. We have plans to increase its usage.

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it_user541425 - PeerSpot reviewer
SCM administrator at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

There were no scalability issues yet.

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SK
System Administrator at Confidential

The solution can be scalable depending on what you are using the server for. If you use the solution as a visualization system, it is scalable, but difficult to scale without having to use additional tools. Linux-based solutions require a lot of manual work unless other tools are used to automate.

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MM
Senior manager at SBI Cap security

CentOS is scalable.

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NP
Teaching and research assistant at a university with 201-500 employees

It is a PC-only solution with CentOS installed on each PC, making it scalable.

We have 10 users in our organization.

We have no plans to increase our usage.

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GD
Lead Solutions Architect - International Projects at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

I'm running around 1,400 CentOS VMs at the moment.

In terms of scalability, of course, things don't scale always as you want, however, it's a powerful solution.

The Dutch organization where I work has eight people on the payroll, however, we are not the users. We are the people building the backend and we have hundreds of thousands of people using the applications running on the data center. The people that watch OTT or watch television make use of parts of the installation.

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HetulPatel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior data engineer at Tiger Analytics

CentOS is a scalable solution.

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RS
Head Channel and Capacity at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

There aren't any issues with scalability. It's easy to test our applications. 

Everything is totally on CentOS, so there are about 300 people in my organization using CentOS. 

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CC
Security Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We have five to ten users of the solution at our organization. We may plan to increase the number of users. It is challenging to scale the solution when we have to increase the storage capacity from one end.

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Fabián Balseca Chávez - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Presales Engineer at GMS Seguridad de la Información

The solution is scalable. 

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TS
Team Leader Operations at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

We have not needed to scale this solution because we work with several small servers or containers.

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DC
Consultant at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

The solution is only really scalable if you handle on-premises versions. However, you can scale it up and down as you need. 

We have close to 300 users using the product right now. 

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SB
Sr Manager - Information Security & Researcher at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable. 

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PS
Security Pre-Sales Engineer - Southern Reigion at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Didn't have the opportunity to go to a bigger scale, since our business was just starting out.

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DB
MIS Specialist at a agriculture with 201-500 employees

In our organization, there are four or five users.

At the moment, we have no plans to increase our usage.

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AD
Systems and Virtualization Engineer at Altelios Technology Group

The scalability of CentOS is good. We can deploy the operating system in many hardware, laptops, and servers.

This solution is not used by end-users, it is used by IT staff.

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RP
IT Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is scalable, we have around 30 users. 

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FK
Managing Partner at Veribir Ltd

The solution is scalable but not at the operating system level.

Web-based applications are using this solution in my organization which many users could be using them.

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MW
Project Manager at Realnux

We have more than 20 customers that use this solution scientific computing.

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FE
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

In the company, we have approximately 800 people who are using it. Beyond that, a lot of our customers are using it, as well.

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it_user357567 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications & Systems Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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HT
System Engineer at CMC CSI saigon

We have cluster nodes, so we can extend and have more servers in the cluster. When we have more incoming requests and more processes for extending functions of the software, we need to scale the server. We work with the vendor for maintaining the software and the server.

We have more than 300 users, and half of them are using the software.

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AK
Technical Support Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is scalable and flexible. Even after installing CentOS, it can be expanded.  

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it_user538686 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Corporate Systems Division at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No. The servers have enough card slots and memory slots, so when it is necessary to add more RAM or new cards, there is no problem.

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it_user479220 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user466755 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud & Monitoring System Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user351633 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer | OpenStack Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
MF
Manager Tech. & Support (Information Technology) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution needs to improve on its scalability.

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Buyer's Guide
CentOS
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about CentOS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,995 professionals have used our research since 2012.