Enterprises using the Self-support plan have noticed a significant increase in subscription costs when running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server on virtual machines. Red Hat has retired the old RH0197181 Self-support subscription option in favor of the new RH00005. According to Red Hat representatives, the sale of new subscriptions at the RH0197181 tariff was discontinued back in 2015, but the old subscriptions continued to operate.
The old and new plans are waivers of technical support and are sold at the same price of $349 per year. The difference is that the new tariff allows the use of RHEL only on physical servers, while the old one allowed installing the distribution kit on virtual machines. In addition, the new tariff has a note that it is not intended for production environments. Thus, users running RHEL in virtual machines are now forced to use the standard plan with technical support, which costs $799 per year.
In addition, Red Hat clarified that the Red Hat Developer program, extended after the collapse of the classic CentOS, which allows free use of RHEL in environments of up to 16 virtual or physical systems, applies only to individual developers, and not to enterprises. Those. Company employees may use Red Hat Developer Subscription distributions for personal use only, but commercial use of RHEL in an enterprise requires the purchase of a license.
Source: opennet.ru