Site Licensing Model for VMWare Users
We would like to see a site licensing model made available for VMWare, or at least the same level of licensing support that is afforded RedHat hosts (e.g. 5 guests per license). We use VMWare as our virtualization backend, and it is not fair that we are being punished with 5x higher licensing costs compared with using a RedHat host. SuSe Enterprise offers unlimited licensing on VMWare, for example, and it is getting difficult to justify spending on the massive quantity of RedHat licenses.
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We have the same issues and god help you if you have the older licensing model. It does not translate well to the new one and is very hard to understand what we had, what we just bought etc.
With the release of RHEL 6 late last year, Red Hat revamped its subscription model to simplify and enhance virtualization offerings:
http://red.ht/nqO0a2
"Server Solutions Manager Gerry Riveros walks through Red Hat subscription options in this session. Topics include an overview of the subscription model, why we changed our model, how the new product portfolio works, which hypervisors can be included, and a few examples of how to choose the right subscription."
I agree, it would be very nice to have a site licensing model available for VMWare, this is already available with SLES/KVM and Windows clients under hyper-v.
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