Red Hat Satellite Reviews

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.

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.

I have been using Red Hat Satellite for about nine months.

It is stable. I can control different locations by using Satellite Capsule.

It is easy to scale.

Red Hat's technical support is excellent.

The deployment took a couple of days. It took me some time to figure it out initially, but after that, it took just a couple of hours, and it was up and running.

I implemented it in my company. We also maintain it ourselves. We upgrade it and work it out. We are Red Hat business partners, so we do everything.

We have hardware engineers who are implementing HPE, IBM, and Cisco solutions. They are not users of Satellite, but they are benefiting from Satellite. There are two or three engineers who are working on Satellite, and they are more than enough because you just need someone who has worked with Satellite to follow up on things. At a location, you just need one engineer. 

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.

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.

We use the solution for monitoring, batching, and configuration management.

I'm currently transitioning to the new version 8. It seems necessary to remove some complexities, such as authentication with hypervisors, to streamline the process.

Red Hat Satellite is a valuable tool for configuration management. It provides advanced services for updates, allowing you to identify and manage servers across networks. Additionally, it offers mitigation capabilities related to cloud services. Its central integration with Red Hat Cloud allows for streamlined management.

The deployment could be simpler.

It is suitable for small businesses.

The initial setup is not complex and takes two weeks to complete. Seven people is enough for the solution’s deployment.

The pricing is reasonable.

Red Hat Satellite indeed offers valuable functionality by providing notifications for available updates on servers. This allows users to promptly address any necessary updates or fixes. Furthermore, it enables batch management of servers, whether they are on the endpoint or within server environments.

It is advantageous, especially for environments with numerous servers, as it allows for centralised management from a single server setup. This streamlines management tasks, such as updates or logs, eliminating the need to handle each server individually.

Having to manage numerous servers individually can be overwhelming. Red Hat Satellite simplifies this by providing a single interface for controlling all servers, reducing the time needed to identify and resolve issues.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

The pricing can be improved.

I have experience with this solution for about three years. 

We have two companies. One of our companies has been a distributor for twenty-three years now. 

Another one is a premium partner of Red Hat, specializing in Ansible, OpenShift, and the migration of CentOS.

We work with enterprise businesses, and Red Hat Satellite gets used where needed.

We specialize in Ansible and OpenShift. We also have some AI and ML models. Being a premium partner, we have good access to products.

We've been getting reasonable support from Red Hat.

Positive

We've implemented it for customers like Infosys, handling thousands of servers. 

What happens is when you wanna put the solution, the customer is definitely conscious about the pricing also. So the amount of the job, what it does versus the price, and not many customers want it because they can perhaps simulate this. It's expensive. 

For customers, who have a lot number of servers. It is definitely useful.

For customers with a large number of servers, it is definitely useful.

I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. The licensing is a bit expensive.

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.

We use Red Hat Satellite for patching purposes.

The product is convenient to use.

Red Hat Satellite's pricing needs improvement.

I rate the product's stability a seven out of ten. It could be improved.

We have less than ten Red Hat Satellite users in our organization. It is a scalable product. I rate its scalability a seven out of ten.

We have used BigFix before. Comparatively, Red Hat works as a proprietary solution. We cannot integrate it with other products. Whereas BigFix can manage integration with various platforms.

The initial setup is straightforward. We have to download the product and install it in the environment. It requires two engineers to execute the process and takes a month to complete.

We can implement the product in-house.

Our customers have to pay for the product's license.

I rate Red Hat Satellite a five out of ten. I recommend it to users who have basic technical knowledge and skills.

We use Satellite to get updates directly from Red Hat because our servers are not connected to the internet, so we get all the updates through Satellite using a central repository. We use the solution regularly when we update or reprovision servers.  

Previously, we were using one server to update from a different repository over the HTTP. We had to manually manage the updates on the repository server. Satellite made the process easier. 

Satellite should be bundled with Ansible Tower and the Ansible Automation platform. We face challenges from a security perspective because we have micro-segmentation in our network. For each server we provision, we have to set permissions to different ports so that the servers can communicate with Satellite. If I have a single server with Satellite and the Ansible Automation Platform, it would be easier to manage security issues instead of having two or three products on various servers. 

We have used Satellite for about five years. 

Satellite has been stable so far.

We hardly use technical support because we can usually find everything we need online. Red Hat support is adequate. They don't respond quickly, but they resolved our issue. 

Deploying Satellite is straightforward and takes less than a day. 

I rate Red Hat Satellite seven out of 10. It's an excellent product that has been useful for us. 

We use the product for patching features.

The product allows us to handle patching for multiple servers at a time manually.

Red Hat Satellit requires certification when installing an RSCD agent on the patch report server. There could be a feature to simplify the process without the requirement of any patch manager subscription.

We have been using Red Hat Satellite for two years.

I rate the product's stability a ten out of ten.

We have around 100 Red Hat Satellite users in our organization. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten.

The initial setup process is straightforward. The deployment time depends on customers' specific requirements for monthly and weekly patching.

The product is very expensive for our customers.

I rate Red Hat Satellite a ten out of ten.