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."The stability of the solution is good."
"One of the main features of this solution is the ease of use."
"This product handles databases well; they run on top of the operating system."
"Solaris' best feature is its stability."
"Oracle Solaris is great due to the fact that it actually is meant for high-end servers."
"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."
"We like that the virtualization is built in, so you don't have to spend extra money on buying licenses for a hypervisor."
"The ability to manipulate the zones and the files within the zones from a global OS provides us flexibility that no other virtualization can match."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's most valuable attribute is its stability."
"It has improved our organization. It has standardized processes."
"From a security perspective, the most valuable feature is SELinux. SELinux provides good security. It's doing a good job of protecting my real estate."
"While using it, we encountered far fewer complexities, and the entire process is much smoother and streamlined."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is Satellite. Its consistency in patch upgradation is great. For the ten-year lifecycle, we have been able to rely on it and not worry if the patch will break. We do not need additional patching features since it covers everything."
"The product is optimized for resource utilization."
"The Red Hat Linux comes with Anaconda, a fascinating tool that is useful if I need to connect multiple systems. I also like role-based access."
"More monitoring tools could be included in the product."
"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."
"The solution is pricey and can be improved by lowering the cost."
"Oracle Solaris can improve by supporting all the recent features that are in the market from other competitors."
"Solaris' package management could be improved, especially in comparison to Linux."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered backend management. In the 11.4 version, Oracle added a management console. It would be great if we maybe had a user management tool to go with it."
"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 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."
"We finally started doing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Edge. That one definitely is an improvement. One piece that is missing is that we are required to use moby-engine, but currently, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Edge forces Podman, so we have to work around it."
"I would like to see the GNOME system monitor feature, which shows CPU usage and other aspects. It will help to save time."
"Some of the solution's features need to be automated. We encounter the hassle of registering the system and attaching a subscription."
"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."
"Security could be increased."
"Writing SELinux policies is sometimes very hard if you want to deploy a new application on it."
"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 only issue we have had with it is around the SELinux configuration because the way Ansible installs, it sticks the platform passwords in a flat file. We want that locked down more strongly than what is there currently with SELinux."
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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, Windows 10 and openSUSE Leap. See our Oracle Solaris vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) report.
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