Oracle Linux Scalability

Marcelo Muniz - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Engineer at kyndryl

The solution is very scalable with no change in hardware needed. Most operational systems require you to change the entire hardware in order to accommodate a new operational system. 

Scalability is rated a ten out of ten. 

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LLIEDNO - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. NetBackup System Administrator at University of Delaware

We use the solution for a very specific applications so do not have the need to scale. The solution is connected to another platform to provide encryption or management. For our use, the solution works very well. 

We do not have thousands of users connected to the solution. 

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Peter Karlsson - PeerSpot reviewer
System specialist at Savecore

It is scalable, catering to a diverse range of systems—from relatively small setups to significantly large ones. When dealing with substantial workloads, especially on the x86 platform, I often find that Oracle Linux outperforms other solutions, showcasing its efficiency and capability to handle larger workloads more effectively.

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SM
Database administrator at SSnC

The scalability is very nice. We can scale horizontally by adding more servers. We can also scale a single server vertically. It depends on the physical hardware that is available. On average, we have 1500 users.

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Gaurav Babbar - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Engineer at Natwest

Since the solution is a per-machine license-based one, I am unsure about its scalability.

I have worked with thousands who were working on the solution.

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Vijay Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - SAP at Capgemini

Oracle Linux is in the cloud making it very scalable.

The scalability of Oracle Linux can depend on many factors. We are currently working on a UK project, it changes completely. For those systems, approximately 600 to 800 users work on those SAP systems which are hosted on Oracle Linux.

We are using close to 55 VMs now in our current project.

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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

I've never tried to scale the solution. I just used it myself for my personal needs. 

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Rekha Pawar - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Qatar University

The solution is scalable. We make a copy of the request and keep it so that we can modify the scale of the solution as needed.

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Daniel_Nemethy - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Nemethy Moderato Kft

The number of users utilizing Oracle Linux within our organization is rather limited. This is due to the fact that the system operates in an autonomous manner, and primarily, it appears that only a maximum of one hundred individuals utilize the front-end component of the system.

At the current moment, there are no concrete plans to increase usage. This is due to the fact that the individuals responsible for utilizing the system are state-employed clerks and the organization has no intention of expanding its numbers. Instead, they have expressed interest in implementing automation as a means of streamlining the process, rather than increasing the number of personnel involved.

The solution can contain a substantial amount of data, it is not considered to be a true big data system. At present, there are no scalability issues to contend with as the system is not overburdened in terms of memory or processor capacity. The data is preserved in clusters that are connected through load balancing, and no quantization is currently being utilized. While it is possible that scalability may become a concern in the future, particularly if there is an increase in the number of connected devices, it is unlikely to be a pressing issue in the near term, perhaps two to three years down the line.

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Thomas Waltair - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Head AND Director Product Development at Neptune Software Group

We are running in clusters, so Oracle Linux is scalable.

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

It's a scalable solution. It's basic Linux clustering and high availability. We have approximately 20 users in our organization.

Their support is quite good.

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it_user607413 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle Database Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have not had scalability issues.

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SW
Founder at Simpro Tech

Oracle is highly scalable.

In our company, we don't use it ourselves, but some of our clients have deployed it for their own use.

They have fifty users

The number of users increases as our clients open more branches in their network. As the number of branches grows, so does the number of clients and users utilizing the system.

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Devaiss Mohanty - PeerSpot reviewer
Premium Services Sales- CX Professional Services at Cisco

Oracle Linux is scalable because it allows for a hybrid cloud environment. We have more than 100,000 users in our company.

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Joonik Jang - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Team Director at BINGGRAE CO LTD

The product is scalable. We have 1500 users for the solution. 

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SA
Manager Assets at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In my opinion, this solution is scalable when benchmarked against KVM. While we have only recently implemented this solution, we have not experienced any scalability issues so far. From an ERP point of view, I think maybe ten people are using this solution. From a scalability perspective, I would rate it an eight or nine out of ten.

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Abhishek Kini - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Retail Insights

The solution is not very scalable. There is not a lot of documentation around scaling.

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Lakshmi Prasada Reddy Nandyala - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Techdemocracy LLC

We have around 800 server systems. Our company has about 400 users of Linux. We plan to increase the usage.

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YA
IT Project Manager at Awash International Bank

The solution is scalable.

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MG
Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This is a scalable option. It's in the same leave as VMware. it expands well and quite easily.

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FM
Sr. Manager - Tech Ops at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Oracle Linux is scalable, We have thousands of systems running on it.

We have no plans to increase usage but we are only maintaining what we have.

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DC
Manager, IT at a renewables & environment company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution can scale up or down easily. You can always scale up, scale down, add more storage, add more memory, that kind of stuff.

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NP
Sr. System and Storage Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees

The solution is very scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so with relative ease. It's not a problem.

We currently have about 50 people on the solution.

We do plan to increase the usage in the future.

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

The scalability could be better. 

We have two or three people using the solution right now and do not have plans to increase usage. 

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Shrikant Navelkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Clover Infotech

The fundamental approach Oracle took in early 2000 is horizontal scaling, and Linux became an extremely important part for the horizontal scaling. We have seen large implementations on Oracle Linux which have been scaled horizontally. 

I think if a customer needs to look into a larger customer, they should look at Oracle. Oracle, themselves, must be the largest user of Oracle. The entire Oracle cloud now works on Oracle Linux so you have thousands of customers running their applications on Oracle Linux. Extremely scalable.

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HU
Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no issues scaling it for our needs.

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HR
Consultant at Hollomey Consultant GmbH

It is a scalable solution. However, the number of users depends on the customer, sometimes several hundred, and sometimes the number of users is less than forty.

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Radhey Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Analyst at NCR Corporation

It is a scalable solution.

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IL
CTO EMEIA at Fujitsu

We have a use case of a shared platform where we have one large organization set on our Intel platform. The virtualization then allows us to grow out for when we get more and more organizations on.

We've just added another huge organization, DHL, they are now set on that shared platform along with another organization. That hasn't impacted it in the least. We are able to scale out and scale with that organization. That organization itself, that specific program, could grow and grow. So it allows us that flexibility to grow that whichever way. If that organization's business case grows and becomes bigger and bigger, the platform can scale out to that.

It also allows us to add in more organizations on the same platform with one overview of managing. For us, as an organization we can manage it from a single point with multiple organizations using it, with no impact on each other.

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it_user521934 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I don't think that it's that scalable, because you have to install Oracle Linux on an Oracle proprietary product. It is not that scalable; meaning, if you want to install this product on Dell or any other platform, you cannot do that. You have to buy an Oracle product in order to use this operating system.

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Faustine Chisasa - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at TZ Telecom Ltd.

Very scalable, especially with available support options

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it_user660024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect Senior Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No problems at all with scalability. We’ve been able to extend clusters without issue.

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PK
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have roughly less than 50 people using the solution in our organization.

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LR
Fresh Operations Manager at Jerónimo Martins

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 25 users using this solution in my organization.

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it_user8013 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

With scalability, we have customers that are scaling up their machines, but also scaling up cluster-wise. In general, there is no big issue with scalability. It is really stable; Oracle puts out really stable releases.

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it_user284961 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Product Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I love the scalability. Because of the fact that it's already optimized for performance, I can scale it to whatever maximum numbers I need very easily. The only time I have to make any adjustments is if I'm doing RAC, real application clusters, I may want to tune a little bit differently based on the number of nodes, but it's very minimal.

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it_user769608 - PeerSpot reviewer
Alliance Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

That is what we are trying to do now. We have selected three or four as a pilot. Now we are trying to launch it on a big scale.

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TO
Enterprise Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

We have found this to be an easily scalable solution.

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MW
Project Manager at Realnux

It is a scalable product.

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it_user611982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President of Enterprise Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The platform is extremely scalable, either in a virtualized fashion or by using the available clustering technology.

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it_user607410 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I own a RAC cluster with two nodes. It is a medium-size environment supported by Oracle Linux. Scalability never was a problem in my scenario.

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it_user418419 - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have had no issues scaling it for our needs.

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MM
Development Manager at Dxperia

If you use the solution as an HTTP server, it can serve 1000 users simultaneously.

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AY
Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is very scalable, especially on platforms like Oracle Cluster and Exadata.

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it_user769581 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We are pretty good in planning, no issues. Every now and then we face some problem but given the fact that we have really qualified and skilled people we can solve it pretty fast, and the support is good.

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EA
Sr. Director, Systems & Databases at GTech

We use Oracle Real Application Clusters for RDBMS-level scalability. We also use engineered systems, which are by default scaled out. All these environments are based on Oracle Linux and we didn't have any issues on the OS layer.

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PC
Independent Consultant at Unaikui

The solution is very scalable. Sixty-five users are using it.

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HP
IT Manager with 1-10 employees

Oracle Linux is very scalable. It is a very strong operating system.

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SU
Master Consultant - RedHat & Oracle Cloud, Virtualization , Automation at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of adding on features, it's pretty scalable. It's similar to Red due to the fact that it is pretty much adjusted downstream from RHEL.

We have between 50-100 users on the solution at any given time.

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it_user436122 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've not had to experience scaling it at that level because I don't do a lot of architecture work. I don't see an issue with scalability, though.

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MuhammadMwinchande - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at NMB Bank Plc

Oracle Linux has good scalability.

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MK
Cyber security manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I have found the solution to be scalable. They have other options available, such as cloud and hybrid versions.

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MS
Manager of Customer Services with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oracle Linux is not really scalable.

We have two or three direct users, on top of 1,050 who use it indirectly.

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it_user769575 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Well, depending on what you mean by "scaling," in vertical scaling we have systems at my customers that go up to 700 gigabytes. I don't know if it's the most scaling, but definitely it's more than enough to have good database consolidation on the server.

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MT
Product Lead at Zenotech

We run, as I said, high performance computing, so we run across several nodes at any one time. We've scaled up to 30 Oracle Linux instances talking to each other, with no problems at all.

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it_user603813 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner Consultant at a tech services company

We have never encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user436173 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Before any major software releases or major changes to our infrastructure, everything is tested to a really, really high level. We would never actually go live with anything without being stable, but it took us longer than it should have to get there.

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it_user436206 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Applications DBA/UNIX SA at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's been scaling just fine for what our needs are.

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SK
senior managed consultant at a tech services company

We have not encountered any scalability issues; scalability was also very satisfactory.

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Moses NYOTA - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software and Cloud Engineer at Velocis Technologies LLC

The solution is scalable, and it is easy to patch.

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it_user598938 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Operation Engineer at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have not had any scalability issues.

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it_user414534 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle DBA at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no issues scaling it.

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WS
Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

We have approximately 100 users using this solution in my organization.

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it_user769605 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner at Viscosity North America

I think what's great about it is if you're a small customer you can install Oracle Linux, just pull it down off of the site, update it. And if you're a large customer you can go with the unbreakable kernel. You can run that on on-premise, and when you go to the cloud which, of course, is scaled out to literally millions of nodes, it's the basis for all of Oracle's cloud.

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it_user769602 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at SRC.SI sistemske integracije d.o.o.

Yes it's scalable, but we don't have a big installation. We only have four physical servers with two OVM server pools, so it's not really a very extensive installation. We don't see any projects on the horizon that will extend this to a large scale but, so far so good, we are happy with it.

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RM
Unix System Administrator Ii at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We have not had any scalability issues.

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it_user769578 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Viscosity NA

It is a derivative of Red Hat, but for all practical purposes, it’s immensely scalable, especially as you're talking about doing multi-node clusters with Oracle Linux. There are numerous customers who are leveraging Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux, that’s a very common platform for a lot for customers today. 

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it_user82836 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We've had no issues with scalability.

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WR
Sales Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

This product is scalable.

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it_user486498 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect Hyperion at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have a couple environments, which have scaled according to business requirements and user growth. So far, it is going well.

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it_user436065 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have no issues scaling it for our needs.

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SAMUELMWANGI - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Calidad Systems Limited

Oracle Linux is scalable.

We have approximately 10 people using this solution in my organization.

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WK
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have approximately 1,000 users using this solution.

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it_user656298 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech company

We have not encountered scalability issues.

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it_user436146 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

We have been able to scale using Linux just fine.

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it_user418464 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle DBA, Linux system administrator, IT engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no issues with the scalability.

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KopanoRamaphoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Rpc Data

I am the only one using this solution in my organization.

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it_user769572 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have no experience with scaling, but I believe scalability is as part of it as any other Unix based operating system that is out there in the market.

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it_user417540 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Technical Systems Consultant at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

For small and medium clients there were no issues with scalability. For larger enterprises, Oracle VM is preferred.

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it_user436116 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is related to how much compute power you are providing. The OS is there but you'll run your application on top of Linux. So that's where you'll scale Linux, which will depend on your application.

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SS
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Oracle Linux has been scalable.

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it_user860853 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Propositions Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

No issues with scalability.

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it_user769617 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at C3dna

Most of the Linux systems are designed for high scalability, so it should not be an issue.

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it_user769590 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at Miracle Sweden

Scales well as well.

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it_user769599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Innovation Officer at Viscosity North America

Is Linux scalable? Let's see. It's on the fastest machines on planet Earth, which is Exadata. Does it scale? Yes. Proven in many clients out there, Exadata is the highest selling and best product that Oracle has ever put out in their history.

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it_user436125 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Product Dev at a tech company

I don't really know about its scalability because we don't use it for large installations. We just usually use many smaller ones so we can run independent tests on them.

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it_user899421 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Manager

We have scaled it. It is sufficient to meet our needs.

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it_user418443 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There have been no issues scaling it for my needs.

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it_user656313 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Unix/Linux Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user769584 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

At the moment, for us, this is not important for us because we designed the solution in a proper way. Today I'm not facing this kind of problem.

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it_user181566 - PeerSpot reviewer
OATS Engineer-Onsite Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had no issues scaling it for our needs.

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Buyer's Guide
Oracle Linux
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Learn what your peers think about Oracle Linux. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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