On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 2:49 PM Gena Makhomed gmm@csdoc.com wrote:
On 29.01.2021 21:06, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote:
Developer Subscriptions allowed to use for production workloads only by individuals, and totally forbidden to use by companies?
Listen to the Ask Noah show interview with Bex because that explains things better.
Sorry, but I can't. Because English is not my native language. Written English I can read, but spoken English is just a bunch of sounds for me - I can't understand it.
350 USD/year RHEL is forbidden to use for virtual machines.
If you are using something else as the hypervisor then you can use the RHEL license My understanding is if you purchased only a single $350 license you can use it for being a HV or a VM but not both.
Look at the page https://www.redhat.com/en/store/red-hat-enterprise-linux-server 350 USD/year Red Hat subscription described as: "Can only be deployed on physical systems". I understand these words as "forbidden to use inside virtual machines".
The $800 "Standard Server" license - I believe this is the one that supports either 1 physical, or 2 VM... which helps a bit if you are calculating cost. It brings down the per-VM cost to $400, and at scale a small discount might apply... perhaps $350 USD/year after discount. But, if you need EUS - then it increases again as an optional add-on cost, so back up to $475+ USD/year per VM.
You may be able to negotiate for the $2500 "Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters" license to cover your whole physical host, whether or not you are running a certified hypervisor or container technology. Lots of fine print around what support would look like in such a scenario, but you may be able to pitch it.
Once you add it all up, it still ends up being a problem at scale. For smaller deployments - it's fine. It is the break-even point where you have to have your own support + development stuff anyways, that the proposition really starts to break down.