[ale] snarky use of RedHat - heh, heh

[Beddingfield, Allen]

So what does it end up approximately costing you per-host?  Our cost per-physical host for RHEL is higher than our cost for VMware Enterprise Plus on a 4 socket server :)
If we were going that route, I would probably do KVM on SUSE SLES with the libvirt tools or Citrix XenServer, since we already have both of those in house.

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Allen Beddingfield
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The University of Alabama
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Subject: Re: [ale] snarky use of RedHat - heh, heh


RHEL is a different pricing structure than VMWare. Vmware has limits per tier on cpu sockets but not redhat.
Virt stuff is all gpl from rh. Manager will be in Centos once no longer beta. Use licensees for high profile stuff and centos for others.

On Oct 29, 2012 9:19 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu<mailto:allen at ua.edu>> wrote:
While I do not doubt that VMware has valid reasons to be quaking in their boots, I'm not sure that Redhat would be the cause.  From my experience, they aren't much less expensive than VMware :)  Of course, my perspective may be a bit skewed. I am in higher-ed, where everything is influenced by how large the academic discount will be.  Redhat's academic discounts are small compared with those of their competitors.  It would probably work out more expensive for us to switch to RHEV.
Allen B.
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The University of Alabama

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Subject: [ale] snarky use of RedHat - heh, heh

for those that have known me for a while, my loathing of all things
Microsoft is legendary. I saw the light of FREEDOM in 1992 and fully
embraced "My True Calling" in 1997. But sometimes people pay me to
kick a windwoes machine around the block.

I finished a set up of RedHat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 Beta (only
slightly easier than a simultaneous root canal and colonoscopy with no
pain killers.) and they have succeeded in removing the horrid
requirement of needed a WindWoes system to run the RHEV Manager gui.
It's a JBOSS stack and the preferred console interface is spice.

It works quite well. Some bits are "different" but I am loading up a
Win7 as a test OS. If that pile of crap will load, ANYTHING will run!

This should have VMWare quaking in their boots.

Wolf- It finally worked!

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