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<p>That choice is mainly between the need for direct support or not.</p>
<p>CentOS is considered the exact same as RHEL except for the
branding. However, there is no commercially available support for
it. <br>
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<p>I would say, in a nutshell, if you have someone who is
knowledgeable about building kernel modules, go with CentOS. <br>
If your system is mission critical or will be, go with RHEL<br>
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Brian Andrus<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/18/2017 2:59 AM, Amjad Syed
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<div dir="auto">Hello
<div dir="auto">We are in process of purchasing a new lustre
filesystem for our site that will be used for life sciences
and genomics. </div>
<div dir="auto">We would like to know if we should buy rhel
license or go wit centos. </div>
<div dir="auto">We will be storing and using dna samples for
analysis here.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks</div>
<div dir="auto">Amjad</div>
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