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."It stands out for its exceptional stability."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we haven't faced any issues."
"Solaris is scalable because they have their own file system, like CFS."
"It works well. It is very stable and very good. It is also very safe. It cannot be easily infected by viruses or attacks."
"Solaris' best feature is its stability."
"The product's most valuable feature is partitioning resources and optimizing hardware utilization effectively."
"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."
"Solaris Zones and Containers are my favorite features."
"The solution’s security feature is the most valuable feature for my company."
"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."
"It is very stable and robust."
"Enterprise support is available for our customers."
"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."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is easy to manage, update, and integrate. I also like Red Hat Enterprise Linux's built-in security features. You need to enable them by default or keep them enabled if you want your system to be secured. It protects most of the system components."
"I like the fact that most of the system configuration is Namespace so it's easy to get to and easy to configure, and most of it still uses text documents. Not all of it's a menu-driven-type entry. I also like the fact that it's a very standard file system layout so it's easy to navigate."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's most valuable feature is its stability."
"Oracle customer service is slow at times."
"When we switch over to Solaris it was not easy because we had some troubles with the performance. Solaris is from Oracle and you would expect that it would run flawlessly, but we had some issues in sizing the previous Linux environment to the Solaris environment."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more secure and better documented. So Oracle could learn from them when it comes to security and documentation."
"More monitoring tools could be included in the product."
"If it could support other file systems, it would be better."
"It is not easy to use. It doesn't have a user-friendly interface. It should be easy to use. We are planning to move from Solaris to Linux because Linux is more flexible and user-friendly. Its installation should also be easier. Solaris also needs specific hardware to work well, which is another reason why we are moving to Linux. It should be more flexible in terms of hardware. It should have better integration with other hardware platforms."
"There is an issue where Solaris doesn't give the correct figures for memory use when checked."
"The Solaris code is open, and the documentation is accessible to all, not only to registered users. Also, the documentation does not support some solutions, and there are no other options."
"It is challenging to use the knowledge base and the deployment documentation."
"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."
"AIX will be out of support in the next few years, so that is a problem because a lot of the clinical apps use AIX."
"It would be very good if we can easily migrate from CentOS to Red Hat. We are about to move from CentOS to Red Hat. It would be great if they can give us a free version. Otherwise, we need to purchase licenses, which are quite expensive."
"A lot of improvement is required to get security compliance, especially with the privacy of the data, managing it, and storing it."
"Network virtualization resources could be better. When you have any kind of trouble with network virtualization, such as with OVS, which is like a switch in a virtual environment, it takes many hours to find what is happening. Other vendors, such as VMware, and even other Linux implementations for network virtualization have better resources. It is much easier to escalate, and there is better documentation."
"There was a reduction in the amount of detail provided in backlog messages between Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions six and seven, compared to versions eight and nine."
"Deployment is simple if you have been using the solution for a long time. However, it can be complex if you are new to it."
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Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 47 reviews while Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 167 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.8, 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, CentOS and SUSE Linux Enterprise, whereas Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, Windows Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise, CentOS and openSUSE Leap. See our Oracle Solaris vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) report.
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