We performed a comparison between Oracle Solaris and SUSE Linux Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Operating Systems (OS) for Business solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the ease of setup."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"Oracle Solaris's operating system is good."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Solaris is the incremental backup that happens in the system."
"The ability to manipulate the zones and the files within the zones from a global OS provides us flexibility that no other virtualization can match."
"One of the main features of this solution is the ease of use."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Solaris Zones and Containers are my favorite features."
"The tool’s idempotency ensures all configurations are in place at all times."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It is a stable platform."
"It also was very easy to setup, and offered an easy to use advanced setup option as well. This helped to create special configurations for different use cases."
"SUSE Linux's most valuable feature is the documentation - there is a lot of documentation about how to create custom servers."
"Linux is easy to use. You have more control on a Unix system."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is scalable."
"The initial setup is simple and takes five minutes for deployment and if you have automation in place, it will take four minutes."
"The tool is quite complex and difficult for anyone trying to use or study it."
"The Solaris code is open, and the documentation is accessible to all, not only to registered users. Also, the documentation does not support some solutions, and there are no other options."
"When we switch over to Solaris it was not easy because we had some troubles with the performance. Solaris is from Oracle and you would expect that it would run flawlessly, but we had some issues in sizing the previous Linux environment to the Solaris environment."
"The solution is pricey and can be improved by lowering the cost."
"It is not easy to use. It doesn't have a user-friendly interface. It should be easy to use. We are planning to move from Solaris to Linux because Linux is more flexible and user-friendly. Its installation should also be easier. Solaris also needs specific hardware to work well, which is another reason why we are moving to Linux. It should be more flexible in terms of hardware. It should have better integration with other hardware platforms."
"I don't want to receive any updates on Oracle"
"If it could support other file systems, it would be better."
"The challenge arises from the differences in commands and configurations compared to more common systems like Linux."
"They should probably just make clustering a bit simpler and also provide more descriptive log files for cluster services."
"SUSE Linux could provide more information about cost and the details of how clustering works."
"The platform doesn't support certain APMs."
"If you want to do something simple like changing an IP number, you have to be quite aware of all the configuration files where you will change that."
"The price of SUSE Linux Enterprise could improve, it is too expensive."
"They should provide chatbot support for customers to open the troubleshooting cases directly."
"The solution could be more stable."
"I have not seen an ROI with this solution."
Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 48 reviews while SUSE Linux Enterprise is ranked 6th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 27 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.6, while SUSE Linux Enterprise is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Solaris writes "Improve flexibility, automate DR process, and speed up recovery time using Zones". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SUSE Linux Enterprise writes "Stable product compatible with multiple cloud service providers ". Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10 and CentOS, whereas SUSE Linux Enterprise is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, openSUSE Leap, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Oracle Linux and Windows Server. See our Oracle Solaris vs. SUSE Linux Enterprise report.
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