What is red hat enterprise linux server

Why choose Red Hat for Linux?

Every technology in your IT stack needs to work together. And the workloads need to be portable and scalable across bare metal servers, virtual machines, containers, and private and public clouds. They need a modern, security-oriented operating system (OS). That OS is Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®.

With a standard OS underlying your workloads, you can easily move them across environments—where it makes sense for your business. Red Hat Enterprise Linux gives you a consistent, stable, and high-performance platform across hybrid cloud deployments, along with built-in manageability and integration with the broader Red Hat management and automation portfolio.

Red Hat is a trusted partner to more than 90% of the companies in the Fortune 500, and a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription provides you direct access to, and advocacy within, the open source community. It also integrates with an ecosystem of thousands of certified cloud, software, and hardware providers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is your foundation for innovation, offering the latest stable development tools, container technologies, hardware, and cloud advancements.

Certified in the cloud

Every cloud environment is unique. That means you need a flexible—but stable—OS. Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers the flexibility of open source code and the innovation of open source communities, along with certifications from hundreds of public cloud and service providers. We even designed a container platform, Red Hat OpenShift, so you can build, deploy, and scale cloud-native applications in public clouds—allowing you to confidently implement the cloud strategy that works for you.

With an eye to giving customers even more flexibility to use the infrastructure they have along with any new or future components, Red Hat works with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and others, giving users the option to standardize their cloud operations with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a configuration that best works for them.

Security and compliance

A more secure datacenter begins with the OS. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has built-in security features such as Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and mandatory access controls (MAC) to help you combat intrusions and meet regulatory compliance. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is also Common Criteria and FIPS 140-2 certified, as well as being the first Linux container framework support to be Common Criteria-certified (v7.1).

Using a supported, enterprise open source OS, like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, means that thousands of developers are monitoring millions of lines of code in the Linux kernel—finding flaws and developing fixes before vulnerabilities become problems. And with Linux kernel live patching, security patches can be applied without downtime. Red Hat has dedicated teams of experts verifying those bug fixes and deploying patches without interrupting your applications, like those that helped handle Meltdown and Spectre a few years ago.

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As an industry recognized platform, and the fact that Red Hat goes to great lengths to get their stuff security accredited, it makes it a lot easier for me to get applications put into production since I can point my customer security people at the work that Red Hat has done upstream.

Thomas H Jones II

Senior Cloud Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Support for emerging open source technologies

Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides more than an OS—it also connects you to Red Hat’s extensive hardware, software, and cloud partner ecosystem, and comes with 24×7 support.

Each version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is designed for any enterprise and sets the stage for what you can do tomorrow. From containers to automation and even artificial intelligence, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is created for innovators, made for developers, and engineered for operations.

Our latest Linux release—Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9—helps achieve long-term IT success by using a common, flexible foundation to support innovation and accelerate time to market.

Streamlined migration process

Our collaboration with other major cloud providers means Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a great platform for services like Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), giving your enterprise the flexibility to utilize legacy systems while incorporating new technologies. The thought of the migration processes involved can seem daunting, but we work with you to make the process as easy as possible.

From your first steps installing, migrating, or upgrading Red Hat Enterprise Linux to eventually deploying across multiple clouds, we provide utilities to help.

Our migration tools make it easy to get started if you’re coming from CentOS Linux or another Linux distribution, like Ubuntu, Debian, or Fedora. For example, you can convert from CentOS Linux® or Oracle Linux distro to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 with the Convert2RHEL command line utility. Convert2RHEL will automatically identify and replace OS packages from your original Linux distribution with Red Hat Enterprise Linux equivalents, but Convert2RHEL is officially supported to help troubleshoot conversion variants.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Third Party Linux Migration is a new offering designed to assist users of CentOS Linux 7 to maintain business continuity after the EOL date. This competitively-priced offering includes a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription and tooling to convert in-place instances of CentOS Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Simplify and streamline the process of assembling customized RHEL operating system images with the latest content and security updates for a hybrid cloud environment. You can create optimized operating system images with Red Hat Enterprise Linux image builder that can handle the details of cloud deployments when you’re ready.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (virtual)

Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ® Server is an easy-to-administer, simple-to-control operating system that can be deployed on physical systems, in the cloud, or as a guest on the most widely available hypervisors. It orchestrates the hardware resources for all your basic computing requirements and includes support for all major hardware platforms and thousands of commercial and custom applications.

Configure your Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (virtual) subscription

Subscription quantity

• Example: 1 physical server with 2 sockets = 1 subscription
• Example: 2 physical servers with 1 socket each = 2 subscriptions
• Example: 2 physical servers with 2 sockets each = 2 subscriptions
• Example: 4 physical servers with 2 sockets each = 4 subscriptions

Technical support

Self-support subscription does not include Red Hat customer support.

Standard subscription:

• For all support cases, standard business hours of coverage are either 9 AM to 6 PM (0900-1800) local time for North America or 9 AM to 5 PM. (0900-1700) for outside North America. Standard business hours do not include weekends or local public holidays.
• Web and phone support channels.
• Unlimited support cases.

Premium subscription:

• 24×7 for severity 1 and 2 cases.
• Standard business hours of coverage for severity 3 and 4 cases are either 9 AM to 6 PM (0900-1800) local time for North America or 9 AM to 5 PM (0900-1700) for outside North America. Standard business hours do not include weekends or local public holidays.
• Web and phone support channels.
• Unlimited support cases.

Available Add-Ons

• Satellite: Easily manage and update Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems with network and provisioning modules that work with Red Hat Satellite.
• High Availability: Get on-demand failover to make applications highly available.
• Resilient Storage: Access the same storage device over a network, whether using shared storage or a clustered file system.
• Extended Update Support: Extend the support period of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux update for 24 months and get overlapping release support for more flexibility.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Server is the most popular variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server is the operating system: incredibly simple to control, easy to administer, and can be deployed on physical hardware systems, on virtual machines, or in the cloud—wherever it’s needed. It serves as a foundation in IT infrastructure supporting all major hardware platforms (x86, ARM, POWER and Z) and thousands of commercial and custom applications.

Lack of standardization increases complexity in an environment. Increased complexity often means decreased productivity. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server standardizes development and deployment with repeatable, flexible, scalable, and automated images, patch-management, and backup processes. It also has built-in manageability and integration with broader Red Hat management and automation solutions that can help you optimize IT staff workloads, increasing efficiency and reducing unplanned downtime.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server standardizes your operating platform, allowing you to build the infrastructure of your choice to expand as you see fit. It’s the base from which your enterprise can grow and expand, whether that’s bare-metal or into the cloud—opting into containers or virtual machines, incorporating automation, virtualization, Kubernetes, or whatever else you need when you need it, without anything you don’t.

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