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A number of commercial products are based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Information about these derivative products and the version of RHEL they are based on is often difficult to come by, since this fact is not widely publicised.

Here are some examples:
* VMware: the Console Operating System (COS) in ESX Server is based on the following Red Hat products:
* * VMware ESX 2.x COS is based on Red Hat Linux 7.2
* * VMware ESX 3.0 COS is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0

* Egenera cBlade - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
* * Egenera BladeFrame OS 3.2 runs kernel 2.4.9−e.39
* * Egenera BladeFrame OS 4.0 runs kernel 2.4.9−e.43

* Asianux
* * Asianux 1.0 is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
* * Asianux 2.0 is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

* Cisco Content Switching Module
* EMC CLARiiON Disk Library DL-series
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