[ale] snarky use of RedHat - heh, heh

[Beddingfield, Allen]

If it is regular RHEL pricing, then we get VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
for roughly the same price - maybe a little cheaper, with edu pricing.

-- 
Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama




On 10/30/12 7:50 AM, "Scott McBrien" <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:

>Allen,
>
>RHEV can either use a RHEL hypervisor (which you pay your normal pricing
>for RHEL) or a more appliance-y RHEL based distro called RHEV-H which has
>its own pricing.
>
>If you're interested in evaluating RHEV, it might be worth while to take
>the RH318 training class.  I see a lot of people check it out that way.
>
>-Scott
>
>On Oct 29, 2012, at 11:59 PM, "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
>> ________________________________
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jim Kinney
>>[jim.kinney at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 9:54 PM
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> 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.
>> --
>> 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 [jim.kinney at gmail.com<mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>]
>> 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!
>> 
>> --
>> --
>> James P. Kinney III
>> 
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>> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
>> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
>> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
>> 
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