Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Stability
It is very stable.
View full review »The stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is extremely good. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is lightweight, so it does not consume a lot of resources. It can handle a variety of workloads, and we have never had any problems with servers crashing or other issues. The software is also easy to set up and configure, and it runs smoothly once it is up and running.
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TJ
Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat is a super stable operating system.
RHEL is reliable across environments including bare metal, virtualized, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud. I do not worry about things on Red Hat most of the time, at least not from an operating system perspective.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
March 2024
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reviewer2197296
Senior Linux System Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The stability has been pretty great. There are some things that we're still working on, but once we solve them, I know they'll remain solved.
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Shawn Hisaw
Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable.
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Aneesh Vadakkoott Mohan
Principal Infrastructure Engineer at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
It is pretty good in terms of stability. It is a stable product. I would rate it a nine out of ten in terms of stability because sometimes the packages can have bugs.
View full review »It is a good operating system. It is very stable. It does not take a lot of maintenance. You set it up well and it runs. To give some perspective, we also have Windows admins. That team is about six people and growing. They manage twice as many servers as I manage, keeping them busy all the time. Whereas, I pretty much have a life; the work-life balance is very good.
RHEL is very stable. You build an image and deploy it, then it runs.
As far as the operating system contributing to reliability, it is very stable and has low maintenance. It keeps running.
We found that two of our outages in the past eight years were related to the operating system. All our other outages were related to the application and the use of the application.
I don't find the solution’s tracing and monitoring tools impact performance at all.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux is definitely resilient and easy to recover, especially when compared to Windows. I enjoyed working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux more than Microsoft Windows, especially because of its resilience.
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reviewer2197278
Senior Linux Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is good. I would rate it a nine out of ten.
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Don Beyer
Systems Administrator at Ithaca College
This is a very stable product.
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reviewer1947159
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
If you have the correct hardware, it is stable, but if you do not, you will have a problem any time soon.
It is reliable. If you don't know how to secure your Linux implementation, Red Hat can do it for you with two or three simple clicks, and you will be very secure without any kind of knowledge.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable.
View full review »It's a very stable product, and that is actually the reason we are forcing or pushing customers to go with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
View full review »RHEL's stability is good.
View full review »RHEL is a very stable product. It's been around for a long time now. It's been stable since they brought it out as an enterprise environment. It's usually not the bleeding edge of Linux. That just means it has more stability in the packaging and the repositories. They keep the bleeding edge updates and things out of it most of the time, which means if you have new features that you want to implement, you have to do some finagling to get those features in place. But it does mean the system's more stable, for the most part.
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AmitSharma23
Senior SIE at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We haven't experienced any major outages or downtime. Most of our issues are quickly resolved. We don't typically upgrade to the latest and greatest because we want to ensure stability, and we have a lot of the components on the old system. We wait for a while to upgrade so we can see the most widely used and most stable version.
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reviewer2197299
UNIX/Intel/ARM manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It's stable. We rarely have our systems crashing.
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reviewer2197263
Senior System Engineer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's very stable.
View full review »It's excellent; in fact, it's the most stable. The presence of kernels is the key factor contributing to this stability. When it comes to security, scalability, and robustness, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) excels in all aspects. That's why we rely on this operating system. Personally, during my time as a technical assistant from 2015 to 2016, I installed a couple of IBM applications. I found that everything ran smoothly on Red Hat Enterprise Linux without any failures.
So the stability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux is remarkably good.
View full review »It is very stable.
View full review »The stability is good. I'd rate it eight out of ten.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux is extremely stable.
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Jeremy Gerdes
Lead System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable. I have never remotely questioned its stability. The downtime is rare. It is usually a vendor's application issue unrelated to it.
My company only has one complaint; we have been using it for more than seven years out of its ten-year lifespan and have yet to receive any version update. The drivers have become stale. We are trying to upgrade them manually. It would be nice if they had updated the drivers. If they do not update them, the solution will end soon. They should prevent it from crashing every time we try to update it. We are still rolling Ansible to automate some of the functions but, it is complicated to process with a vast sync of firmware and drivers.
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reviewer2197305
Director Security Engineering at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
The stability of what we have deployed is good. The only time it crashes is if we do something or we try to configure a control that one of the engineers doesn't fully understand, which then breaks it. A lot of it's just like us breaking it ourselves or a customer asking for something that wasn't initially planned. Just pure deployment is good.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable.
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reviewer2021388
Infosec IT specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees
With anything, when you nurture it things work. Now that we are finally on 7.9 and migrated 6.11 we are actively trying to automate. This puts us in a better and more stable position.
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Jim Bunchman
Senior Software Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very stable.
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Ankit Gupta.
Senior Solution Architect at Nuventure Connect
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a robust product.
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Joseph Gust
Network and Systems Engineer at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Inc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable.
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reviewer2197320
Senior Information Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a stable solution.
View full review »It's very stable.
View full review »We chose Red Hat for the stability.
View full review »It is a stable solution.
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Mahesha C M
Development Engineer at HSBC
The stability of the solution is fine. I'd rate it nine out of ten for stability. It's user-friendly and the downtime is low. It won't impact business.
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Manuel Paula.
System Admistrator at Lifestyle Services Group (part of Phones4U)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable.
View full review »The solution is very stable. Compared to many other OSs we test for our company, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has not crashed out on me or given me any problems. Anytime something goes wrong, after some research, I find that it's going wrong because I'm doing it wrong, not because the OS is fighting me in any way.
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reviewer2197275
Senior Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a 10 out of 10 in terms of stability.
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Rolando Giron
VAS Regional Project Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is extremely stable.
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Dinesh Jaisankar
Senior Information Technology System Analyst at National center of meterology
Its stability is awesome when compared to other products. We have multiple Unix flavors running in the environment, but we are running production workloads only on RHEL. Previously, we were running the production load on other Unix flavors, but we had a lot of production issues. That's why we migrated the whole production workload to RHEL.
View full review »I have no complaints regarding the tool’s stability.
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reviewer1453941
Virtualization and Cloud Solutions Architect at a university with 10,001+ employees
The product is very good. Very mature.
View full review »RHEL is one of the more stable Linux platforms.
View full review »The stability is awesome because we have had only a few issues in operations. Once it is set up, tested, and ready for production, it just runs. For the usual maintenance tasks, like updating the system and making configuration changes, there are almost no disruptions or issues in our environment.
The availability is great. We usually don't have big issues in our day-to-day operations.
View full review »Once it is up and running, it is solid and stable. It has a stable OS. I haven't had any issues with it.
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Aslam Pasha.
Infrastructure Technology System Engineer
It's a stable product.
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reviewer768786
IT Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable. We barely have any issues with a server setup. So far, it's manageable. The biggest challenge is the criticality of releasing patches. When we have any critical alerts we action them. We tend to try to wait for the release of a stable version.
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Gabriel Karl Mbega
CEO at Dataops Consultancy
The solution is very stable so I rate stability a nine out of ten.
View full review »The stability is good.
View full review »This is a double-edged sword. From a stability standpoint, it is great. From a facilitating development, at least up through Red Hat 7, it was problematic. If you wanted the latest and greatest version of Python, Java, or any given development language that your developer community wanted to use, then your choices were package it yourself or use SCL. Packaging it yourself was flexible, but then it caused auditability problems for your information assurance folks. Going the SCL route was good, but activating it in a way that developers were comfortable with was problematic. It looks like the AppStream capability in EL8 will ease some of that. However, I haven't had enough customers using EL8 yet to verify whether what seems more usable to me will be more usable for them.
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RicardoURQUIDI
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It is very reliable. We didn't have any issues with services.
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AsgharAhmed
Consultant at Domain.com, LLC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable.
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Ahmed Qasim
Senior System Admin at Tepco-Group
It is very stable. We have three websites running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
It works fine. We have had servers running for ten years. We have been just updating them, and we have not had any issues or downtime.
View full review »Compared to Windows and other operating systems that I've used, it's stable.
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MattHolt
Engineer at Health E Systems
I am impressed with how extremely stable Red Hat Enterprise Linux is.
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David
IT Systems Engineer
In the environment I'm in right now, we've never had any issues. It's very stable.
In another environment that I worked in, we had some Oracle Databases, but that wasn't really an issue with the operating system. It was more an issue with some configuration items between the database and the OS. And that was about four years ago.
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Frank Fekkes
Middleware and applications specialist at FABIS bvbb
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a stable operating system. In most cases, the issues we have encountered have been related to hardware, not the operating system itself.
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Christopher Stewart
Director (PRC) at Talawa software
I rate Red Hat Enterprise Linux a nine out of ten for stability.
View full review »I rate the product’s stability a nine out of ten.
View full review »It's very stable.
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reviewer1455024
System engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees
This is a stable solution.
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reviewer962781
Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
There are bugs, but you can usually find a workaround quickly. When somebody discovers a bug, it's fixed pretty quickly in the next release.
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Ricki Firman
IT Infrastructure Manager at Linuxfault
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is extremely stable.
View full review »It is very stable. I would rate it a ten out of ten in terms of stability.
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reviewer2197374
Solution Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
I have experience working with Ubuntu, Fedora, Canonical, etc. From that perspective, the solution's stability is good. The security feature plays a key role in terms of the pace at which it receives updates for operating systems to maintain it.
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reviewer2197401
Software Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution is very stable.
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reviewer2197389
Senior Platform Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The product’s stability is good. It has minimal downtime when it comes to generic deployments. Once you start adding complexity, there are other issues.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux is extremely stable.
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reviewer1486413
Principal Analyst - AIX and Linux at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The stability has been very good. However, there is a learning curve. We were running huge in-memory databases, about 2.5 terabytes of RAM, which is SAP HANA. Then, we were getting really weird problems, so we asked the app guys 20,000 times to open a ticket because we were seeing all kinds of weird timeouts and things like that on the OS side. We were saying, "It's the app. It takes forever." Finally, they said, "Oh yeah, we use a back-level thing that is buggy and creates a problem." It took us six months and four people to get that from the app guys. We were ready to kill them. That was not good. Whatever you put on Linux, make sure that you have somebody supporting it who is not dumb, or on any platform for that matter.
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reviewer2197386
Senior Service Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Regarding stability, it's good since we haven't had a major outage.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable like every other Linux distro. It works fine. We have had no issues.
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Mikhail Bogdanov
Senior Systems Admin at a government with 501-1,000 employees
The solution's efficiency and reliability are fantastic.
We do not use security features or profiles much but have never had issues with them.
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reviewer1708416
Information technology specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees
It's very stable. We don't have any issues with our servers crashing. If you scale your servers properly with enough RAM and resources, the operating system is almost up 100%. It's high availability.
View full review »Red Hat is as stable as you want it to be. We periodically have some bugs, but we can resolve these issues quickly.
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reviewer2197425
Architect at a tech company with 11-50 employees
It's very stable. I didn't have any issues with the stability of the product most of the time.
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reviewer2197302
Platform Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It's very stable.
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Trevor Omondi
Enterprise Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
It's quite stable. I haven't had any issues in terms of performance and stability with my Red Hat servers. If I have an issue, it's normally a hardware-related issue or a storage-related issue. It's rarely at the OS level.
One of its most valuable features is its stability and reliability.
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reviewer2237622
IT at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable.
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Andrew McClintock
Team Lead at Wipro Limited
I like their stability. I like that they are gatekeeping a lot of the changes. They are not too far behind the curve. However, they are maintaining stability, which is important, especially for running businesses.
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Bruce Young
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Overall, the stability is very good.
The most recent stuff that's been a little bit kinky was in the release of version 8. They were looking to change things around with how the product is built, so it just took us a while before we started using it.
I think we waited until version 8.1 was out and then we were fine. It was a case of us letting that version settle a little bit, as opposed to version 6 and version 7, which we went straight to once released.
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SergioVelez
Master Software Engineer / Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The solution is highly stable.
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reviewer2211579
Senior Linux System Administrator at Torch Technology
I rate Red Hat Enterprise Linux a ten out of ten for stability.
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Vincent Terrone
Senior Solutions Architect at VICOM INFINITY INC
The stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is solid. It performs well and handles the workload effectively.
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reviewer2197383
Director at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product's stability is good, with 99.99 percent uptime.
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Sochima Ezekwesili
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It is the most stable one. It is very stable.
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reviewer2201775
Cloud Platform Specialist with 11-50 employees
It has its own ups and downs. The operating system itself is pretty much stable, but there could be some bugs that could affect your availability. While running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, I did experience some bugs from time to time that did affect the availability on my machine.
Overall, it's pretty stable, but when you do something more hardcore or special, then its stability could be affected. I can't recall anything that I faced in the last few weeks or months, but as you go around production with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and have lots of machines running on it, you can get stability issues or kernel issues. A machine might suddenly be rebooted for no reason. That's my experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux's stability.
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reviewer2197260
Manager, IT Operations at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The solution’s stability is fine.
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Fredrik Lehtonen
Systems Analyst at Intraservice/City of G̦teborg
It's a really stable operating system. It has a lifetime of about ten years per version. It's not like other Linux systems where the lifetime is about five years. It's stable and it runs for a long time so you don't have to change the operating system that often.
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reviewer2197368
Platform Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is stable.
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reviewer2197443
Principal Server Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Its stability is quite good. I'd rate it a nine out of ten.
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reviewer2197242
Linux System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
It's very stable, but that's also why it falls behind at times. For example, if you have newer hardware like systems A and B that were released within the last year, there might be potential sleep issues, specifically with S3 sleep, that require manual patching and intervention in the kernel. It's because they are trying to support newer systems on a much older framework.
I believe RHEL 9 is supposed to mitigate that a little bit. It aims to provide a balance between the latest stable release and the older version that is, like, five years old. They're trying to meet somewhere in the middle.
View full review »It is very stable and that is one of the features we most appreciate about it.
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reviewer2278254
Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product has been stable so far.
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reviewer2197398
Systems Engineering Manager at a retailer with 51-200 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a pretty stable solution. Its stability is a lot better than most other operating systems.
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reviewer2020998
Cybersecurity Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It's very stable. I've never had any breaking issues when upgrading packages or versions.
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reviewer2353605
Network and Linux System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It is stable. I would rate it a 9 out of 10 for stability.
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reviewer1068024
Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable. We have been running the solution for years with no crashes.
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reviewer2197341
Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I have no complaints at all about the stability of the product.
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reviewer2197293
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
In terms of stability, there have been some issues, particularly on the workstation side. The workstation tends to freeze up occasionally, requiring a system restart. The server side, on the other hand, works well as intended. Although Red Hat Enterprise Linux is primarily designed for servers, our developers use it as a workstation, and that can sometimes cause issues after a couple of days of continuous use.
They may need to restart their systems when something freezes or stops working. So it's one of those things we encounter.
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Aditya Lad
Software Engineer at a security firm with 10,001+ employees
Until now, RHEL has been the most stable OS I have ever seen. Nothing seems to break, with frequent updates. I have been running it 24/7 for the past 18 months and it runs flawlessly.
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reviewer2197395
System Admin for OpenShift at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is very, very stable and tested. It is like everybody tested everything for five years, and every problem was fixed.
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reviewer2197257
Cyber Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The stability of the product is very good.
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reviewer1809927
Sr. Designer Data at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
If it works the first time, usually it will work forever. It's only when you patch that you need to do some regression testing to make sure that it's working.
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UsmanMalik
Joint Director at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Stability has always been a plus for RHEL.
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reviewer2021337
Cloud Architect at a government with 201-500 employees
It has been relatively stable. The only time we see stability issues is when we introduce new third-party products. We have some mandates as a government agency to do some endpoint security stuff and integrating that in has caused us a few stability issues, but that's not so much the fault of Red Hat. It's a quagmire of the chicken and the egg. You have to run a certain kernel, but that kernel is not compatible with the other software that you are forced to run. So, we've artificially created stability issues.
They eventually work out or work themselves out. When the vendors get on board and update their products to match the kernel, then everything tends to function smoothly at that point until we introduce another hiccup. We're constantly throwing hurdles, but we also have a very good system for bringing stuff back to life after it's dead, and we've done it enough that we're pretty timely. We can get one of our servers up in about 10 minutes.
View full review »The solution is stable.
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reviewer2021034
Program Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
This is a stable solution and we have not had any major issues when using it.
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Devi Neopane
System admin at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
This is a stable solution. Our machines reside on vSphere and when a server goes down, we have to find out the root cause. This requires pulling information from the vSphere.
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John ONeill
Principle consultant at Active Data Consulting Services Pty Ltd
None, our RHEL servers have been rock solid.
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Md.Jasim Uddin
Assistant Manager at Cosmopolitan Communications Limited
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1571253
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is very stable. It is more stable than Windows Server.
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Ifham Shahid
Associate Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
RHEL is very stable. Unlike Kali-Linux or Solaris, RHEL solutions are very stable. We have licensed projects, and they must be stable to provide all customers with instructions. They're stable, compared to other Linux options too.
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reviewer2197248
Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have no complaints about the stability. It is good.
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reviewer2107779
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is stable.
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reviewer2021031
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
This is a stable solution.
Rarely were there stability issues. We regularly had servers running for three years without reboot.
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Fayaz Ali
Linux Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Based on my experience, it has been stable. I did not experience any issues.
View full review »Very stable i don´t find any problem we have many environment using redhat since first version.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,995 professionals have used our research since 2012.