On 03/10/2012 12:20 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: >> >> Our servers are HP DL580’s and they have 6 CPU’s. The RHEL licensing is >> confusing, can anyone explain it? >> > > > I believe it is confusing on purpose... > The last time I looked into this, this is how RedHat licenses worked ; note > that buying one RedHat license could be quite the liability, something to be > very careful with. Here's my understanding: > > -RHES is free to be used > > -you can buy support from RedHAt, also call license, but really what you buy > is support > > -*IF* you buy support from RedHat, *ALL installed RHES installed in your > company* need to be under support. i.e.: If you have 50 server running RHES, > and you want to buy support for 1, or 2, or 10 servers, you cannot. The > support contract (also called license) specifies that you have to buy it for > all installed RHES in your company, so in this case 50. > > -it is perfectly legal not to buy any, but if you buy one, you agree to buy > one for each copy of RHES running in your company. > > > Also you have to make sure you're buying support.
At the basic level the license only gives you access to updates. Management was buying licenses as needed to keep everything covered....and reminding us that we have support, so if we have problem we could actually call them instead of spending all the time researching online. So, finally we call them on a problem. And, find out that the license doesn't give us any support. Though they did finally get around to having all the licenses co-terminate. All our licenses are for RHAS.... I think we are currently at one production system that is no longer licensed.... but that's because Red Hat won't sell us a license for it...its a 2.x machine (the version of the app is only licensed for that, and they don't want to pay to upgrade it...after we went through all the work of building them a new server with 5) Right now we have one 3.x machine, but someday when I have time...I think I'm going to work on moving the app. For the last few years, it was one of the first projects given to a new hire.... _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
