Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) On-Premises - Staying Current
What are your upgrade and/or migration plans to stay current? Please provide details.
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Manuel Paula.
System Admistrator at Lifestyle Services Group (part of Phones4U)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux's security advisories typically notify system administrators of potential vulnerabilities, allowing them to prepare for patching easily.
View full review »To ensure optimal performance and security, we must prioritize installing operating system updates as they become available.
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Mahesha C M
Development Engineer at HSBC
The management experience for patching is very good. We can do the patching through the portal. We can use it based on our own timing.
View full review »The Web Console is helpful because we use it to monitor and record users if we choose to, as well as check our system to make sure everything is up to date and we are current with the latest patches.
View full review »Red Hat helps us maintain compliance by enabling us to create and modify firewall rules as needed, allowing for strong security measures that can be adjusted.
View full review »We will be involved with some Red Hat Enterprise Linux upgrades or migrations to other cloud platforms.
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Sean Doyle
Solutions Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
From a technical perspective, the biggest return on investment when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is that compatibility and supportability are easier to adopt. There's a wider range of things that support it, and it has a larger community for getting support compared to Windows.
Our upgrade or migration plans to stay current with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are that our operating strategy is to put all net new on 8.10, and we are going to stay on 8.10 until 9.10. We typically just stay on the long-term release.
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Antoine Ragland
Senior Infrastructure Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) scales effectively with the growing needs of my company, as all our developers can develop code and software on a Linux-based system using RHEL without any complaints about functionality.
My upgrade or migration plans to stay current involve starting eventually, especially since I work in the government world, where we use their tools to harden the system. When those tools are available, we'll start looking to migrate to the next version of Red Hat. When those tools are ready, we'll start putting RHEL 10 into our development environment to start testing.
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Igor Escaleira
Software Engineer at Dell Technologies
Our upgrade and migration plans to stay current with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) involve upgrading our clusters.
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Troels Hansen
Architect at KnowIT
Our upgrade or migration plans to stay current involve knowing the lifecycle for a specific version. It's just a matter of planning ahead. The long lifecycle and predetermined lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) make it easy.
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Kirk Brauer
Infotainment Software Engineer at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
We are now looking at moving towards RHEL 10, which is going to be one of our migrations before we go full production launch on this, and we're looking at doing incremental upgrades as we go to have the latest stuff available.
View full review »My upgrade or migration plans to stay current involve understanding the concept of OpenShift, which has not yet become very popular in Iraq. I try to keep pushing the client to understand the concept of containers and other things. It will take some time, however, it's a good feature to move ahead with OpenShift containerization.
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Donald Hardy
Network Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Our upgrade or migration plans to stay current with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are limited by the applications we run, so I won't upgrade to version ten until the applications say they can run it; that's the number one thing.
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ScottPalmer
Team Lead, Linux Systems & Tools at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our upgrade or migration plans to stay current include rolling out Red Hat 10 as soon as it's available and once we get an antivirus product that's supported on Red Hat 10. My thought is that we'll probably try to test Image Mode to see if that works for us, as it may simplify our monthly process to keep things in sync.
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Chris Perrault
Systems administrator at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
We are going to move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. We've been pretty good about getting up to the latest version once it's available. It took us a while with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, but we jumped to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 fairly quickly. I had my process down, so with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, I got right on to it and rewrote my configuration. I'm hoping to streamline that to get Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 up and going once it comes out.
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Ray Ortega
Server administrator at Northrop Grumman
My upgrade or migration plans to stay current with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) involve leaning on our unclassified environment before we can upgrade, as I'm in a disconnected network. As soon as we're able to, I'm trying to upgrade as often as we can. It's because I want to utilize all the new tools coming out in 9.6 and now 10. We just got to RHEL 8, and I'm already ready to leap RHEL 8 to get the newest features.
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Jonathan Kyek
Team Lead Riti Research Systems Engineering at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our upgrade or migration plans to stay current with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) involve adhering to a rule: once a version reaches end-of-life, we do not enter the extended life cycle. We plan that out ahead, ensuring that all of our systems get migrated and updated about a year before the end of life of any version. Some systems get migrated to the latest version while others remain and just get updated to whatever is current.
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Benjamin Frederick
Staff Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
My upgrade or migration plans to stay current depend on where it's at or the platform team; our stuff is going to be separate, and I'm unsure exactly what the cadence is for release and into the patching cycle. That'll be a pretty quick turnaround. We have situations where it needs to stay on older systems since the team using it needs that to prove out or test whatever they're working on.
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MichaelJones3
IT Solutions Engineer I at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
My upgrade plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to stay current include going to the website for RHEL 10; it has a lot of new features. I'll have to work with the server team to see if they're ready for it since it's a big jump.
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DavidSexton
Devsecops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Our upgrade or migration plans to stay current involve using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 for much of our infrastructure, while also deploying RHEL 9 for the past six months. Once RHEL 8 is deprecated, we'll probably start looking to migrate to RHEL 10 and building net new servers.
Our upgrade or migration plans to stay current involve using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 for much of our infrastructure, while also deploying RHEL 9 for the past six months. Once RHEL 8 is deprecated, we'll probably start looking to migrate to RHEL 10 and building net new servers.
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Joe Campos
Principle Architect at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
RHEL has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risks, as we keep RHEL current with patching. We don't have specific metrics on how much less risk has been lowered or how much downtime has been mitigated, however, we do keep our systems patched within 30 days of CVE being released, so our risk exposure is quite low.
View full review »When assessing the knowledge base offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), I find their documentation online to be excellent.
View full review »I always have upgrade or migration plans to stay current and we are very aggressive about it, except when the application vendor says it's not supported on the new version yet, which is the only bottleneck. We are always very aggressive with upgrades, except when an application states that it does not support the new version. That's the only drawback we face.
View full review »For upgrade or migration plans to stay current, we're using the automated LEAP process for migrating from a lower version to the latest version.
View full review »Our upgrade or migration plans to stay current involve evaluating Red Hat 9 now, and we will be evaluating Red Hat 10 afterwards.
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TonyHe
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Regarding our upgrade or migration plans, we recently migrated to version 9, which is a long-term service version. We plan to stick with version 9 for the next year or so.
View full review »Our upgrade and migration plans to stay current involve recommendations from our vendors.
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