What will I need to buy to run RHEV 3.0?

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RHEV 3.0 has not been released yet, but customers are already asking how the RHEV 3.0 product will be priced, especially now that it is based on RHEL 6 and JBoss. The good news is nothing has changed: RHEV is just as easy to buy as before. And the JBoss runtime needed to run RHEV Manager is included in your RHEV subscription.

 

RHEV 3.0 Pricing Based on Managed Sockets and Desktops, Just Like Today

 

  • The basic product for RHEV, called RHEV for Servers, is priced on the basis of the sockets in the hypervisors being managed. This does not change for RHEV 3.0.
  • There is a single edition of RHEV for Servers, with all of the enterprise virtualization management features we offer.
  • Customers simply need to count the occupied CPU sockets in all their servers, then choose either a Standard (Business Hours) or Premium (24 x 7) support model. That's it.
  • RHEV Manager (the management system) is included, as is the ability to run unlimited server virtual machines. Guest operating systems (Windows, RHEL, etc.) must be purchased separately.
  • If you want to run desktop operating systems, you will need RHEV for Servers for every socket in your environment, and then add the RHEV for Desktops add-on, which is sold in packs of 25 concurrent desktops. RHEV for Desktops gives you support for desktop operating systems, the desktop User Portal, the SPICE client, and RHEV desktop guest agents.

RHEV Manager requires a RHEL subscription, but JBoss included

 

  • For your RHEV Manager servers, you will be required to have an active RHEL subscription running the latest RHEL 6. Your RHEV subscription will give you the RHEL channels you will need to subscribe to in order to run RHEV, including the appropriate JBoss platform.
  • The JBoss platform is included with your RHEV subscription (it doesn't cost extra), but it is limited to running the RHEV Manager platform and cannot be used for other purposes.

RHEL for your hypervisor servers is optional, but not required

 

  • Every RHEV for Servers subscription includes the RHEV Hypervisor (RHEV-H) which is a slimmed down version of RHEL with just enough packages to act as a hypervisor. It can run any guests (RHEL, Windows, etc.) and is included free with RHEV. Most customers prefer to deploy RHEV-H in their environments, and they can do so for every server for which they have purchased RHEV for Servers.
  • Some customers prefer to use RHEL as a hypervisor on the bare metal, which we also support. These RHEL subscriptions would need to be purchased separately, but it's also the same subscription you need to buy RHEL guests.
    • For example, if you buy unlimited RHEL guests for all of your servers, you get a bare metal instance of RHEL for free which you can install on each server and configure as a hypervisor for RHEV.
    • Or, you can choose to install RHEV-H on your servers and simply activate the unlimited RHEL guest subscriptions on those servers.
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