[ale] snarky use of RedHat - heh, heh

[Jim Kinney]

I don't know cost. I have access to this through partner license stuff.
On Oct 30, 2012 12:01 AM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
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> Subject: Re: [ale] snarky use of RedHat - heh, heh
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>
> 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.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org> [ale-bounces at ale.org
> <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] on behalf of Jim Kinney [
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> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 5:25 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> 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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> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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