Red Hat Satellite Overview
Red Hat Satellite is the #8 ranked solution in our list of top Configuration Management tools. It is most often compared to Ansible: Red Hat Satellite vs Ansible
What is Red Hat Satellite?
Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that makes Red Hat infrastructure easier to deploy, scale, and manage across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. This management tool helps users provision, configure, and update systems to keep them running efficiently, securely, and in compliance with various standards. By automating most system maintenance tasks, Red Hat Satellite helps organizations increase efficiency, reduce operational costs, and enable IT to better respond to strategic business needs.
Red Hat Satellite Buyer's Guide
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Red Hat Satellite Customers
Baloise Bank SoBa, ETH Zurich, Munich Airport, ING-DiBa, Produban
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Pricing Advice
What users are saying about Red Hat Satellite pricing:
- "The licensing depends on the number of servers."
- "The cost for a larger enterprise is probably almost always a boon."
- "Its price is good. They call it subscription, not license, and it is on a yearly basis. There is only one subscription, and that's it."
Red Hat Satellite Reviews
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reviewer1414863
System Analyst II at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date
What is our primary use case?
Red Hat is an operating system. It has been out since 1995 or 1996 and went through a few iterations before it became a true enterprise solution. Basically, they changed their name and changed the version name back between about 2003 to 2005 when they came to that point. Satellite is a package management solution most commonly used to maintain patch levels and security updates. It is something like what SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) does on Windows servers and Windows workstations.Pros and Cons
- "Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups."
- "It cuts down significantly on the administrative time it takes to patch systems in a large environment."
- "The product could have more diversity in what it is able to deploy and might do better if it was not dedicated to Red Hat products only."
- "It has not been significantly updated in a while."
What other advice do I have?
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Red Hat Satellite as about a seven or seven-and-a-half out of ten. It could probably be a bit more robust in some areas. They have not, to my knowledge, done a major revision update in a while. So I would say about a seven or seven-and-a-half is fair. Red Hat has been moving toward an Ansible solution more than the Satellite solution in recent years. That is not really a problem for me. It is just that I would like to see the Satellite server product more updated than it has been. It is a good product for what…reviewer1450230
Project & Software Manager at a consultancy with self employed
Makes it easier to manage the software and comes with excellent support
What is our primary use case?
We are using it mainly for managing the software and taking care of licensing periods, fixes and enhancements, features, and all similar things for the software.Pros and Cons
- "Fixing is the most valuable. When you deal with a lot of hardware and software and you have a lot of packages, fixing is a bit difficult. You need to track and pull up all such things, but Satellite makes this task easy. We have branches in other locations, and I can manage other branches by using Satellite Capsule, which is a great feature."
- "It wasn't easy in the beginning, and some effort was required to work it out. I already had the product documentation, but it was not well organized. It wasn't easy to follow. There were a lot of documents here and there."
What other advice do I have?
We chose this product because we are a Red Hat business partner, and we know that Red Hat has excellent products. It was our first choice. I would definitely recommend this solution to anyone who wants to manage the software. I would rate Red Hat Satellite an eight out of ten.Product Categories
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