Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers: Pricing and licensing
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers offers industry-leading performance, scalability, and lower total cost of ownership compared to other virtualization solutions.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization pricing is based on number of managed sockets to support streamlined ordering, deployment, and capacity planning. Customers familiar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription pricing should find Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization subscription pricing easy to understand and implement. Each Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers subscription contains the following components:
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers: A feature-rich server virtualization management system that provides advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduler, and more.
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor: A modern standalone bare metal hypervisor. It is based on Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization technology included with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers. Optionally, users can use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (purchased separately) as a hypervisor managed by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers.
Virtual Guests: Red Hat also offers subscriptions and entitlements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual guests for use with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription: Purchase single Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions to use as virtual guests, like you would bare metal subscriptions. This model works best with a low density and low total number of Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests. Learn more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Guest 4 Packs (per host): Purchase a 4 pack for each host to enable it for up to 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests. This model works best for a low density (4 per host or less) of Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Guest 100 Packs (per socket): Purchase a 100 pack for each socket on each host to enable it for up to 100 Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests per socket. This model works best for a high density of Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests when Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform is not an option for architectural reasons.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform as hypervisor: Purchase and install one Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform subscription for each of your hosts and get an entitlement to unlimited Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual guests on licensed hosts. The model is best for a high density of Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests. Learn more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform.
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