On 02/11/11 22:36, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
On 11/02/2011 06:34 AM, Ned Slider wrote:
On 01/11/11 22:26, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
Just to be sure does that mean that for $2000 I can install on one physical system and unlimited guests on that system or does that mean the $2000 are only for the host system with the *ability* to host an unlimited number of guests and I still have to buy a subscription for each individual guest on top of that?
Regards, Dennis
All I can tell you is that our virtualization licenses allow you to install on 1 host (up to 2 sockets), and on *that* one host you can then install as many RHEL guests as you like and they will all be entitled to updates through RHN without consuming any further entitlements. So unlimited entitled RHEL guests.
Is that the $2000 license or how much do you pay for that? I'm trying to understand if the costs of licensing RHEL are actually feasible for and right now I'm a bit perplexed that their licensing isn't all that clear. If the license indeed includes the entitlements for RHEL guests on that host then this actually looks manageable but if you have to pony up more on top of that for each VM then something like debian looks indeed more attractive.
Sorry Dennis, I can't personally confirm that as licenses aren't paid out of my pocket, but it looks like Trey has already confirmed it for you.
I would very much suggest you give Red Hat sales a ring or drop them an email.