[CentOS-devel] First round of RHEL programs announced

Sat Jan 30 20:10:10 UTC 2021
Mark Mielke <mark.mielke at gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 2:49 PM Gena Makhomed <gmm at 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.

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Mark Mielke <mark.mielke at gmail.com>