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Q&A Red Hat Subscriptions Since Red Hat is a subscription rather than a licence, you have access to all future versions and all previous supported versions as long as you renew your subscription. When you buy Red Hat, you are purchasing a support contract for all versions that Red Hat classify as supported under their support life cycle. For instance the current version of Red Hat is 5.4 but versions 4.x and some versions of 3.x are still supported under the subscription. Red Hat has the longest support lifecycle in the industry of seven years. More information on the current supported versions and the support lifecycle is available at: http://www.redhat.com/s errata/. How many subscriptions are required? Are additional subscriptions required for virtualised servers? Red Hat is sold on a per physical server basis. So, you will require a Red Hat subscription for every physical piece of hardware that you want to run Red Hat on. As part of the subscription you gain access to Red Hats virtualisation technology in XEN and more recently KVM, this way you can run a variety of operating systems as virtual guests including Microsoft Windows, using Red Hat as the host operating system. A subscription for a two physical socket system includes support for four virtual guests of any operating system certified on Red Hat. For larger servers i.e. greater than two sockets, Red Hat will support an unlimited number of guests! How can users check all their systems are covered? All Red Hat subscriptions are tied into a Red Hat Network (RHN) Login. Red Hat Network is a complete systems management platform for Linux. Its built on open standards and uses a simple, Internet-based graphical interface. It also features a modular design as networks grow, administrators can add enhanced capabilities for system updates, management, and monitoring of their entire infrastructure. When you order a Red Hat subscription your subscription is placed in the RHN Login that you can create yourself. You download Red Hat software after logging into your Red Hat Network account. The best way for a user to verify that all their systems are covered, is to make sure they have an adequate amount of subscriptions in their Red Hat Network account to cover all their physical servers running Red Hat. Each subscription has a unique contract number and installation number. When you tie a subscription to a server your Red Hat Network account will associate your servers unique hostname (that you set when installing) with an available subscription so that you can easily Test Drive Learn more about Red Hat and Jboss at www.testdriveinteractiv Product Information White Papers Case Studies Videos Creates an ongoing relationship where the reseller can engage with their customer on an annual basis about the renewal manage and have visibility on all your servers in a central location. As your Red Hat estate grows, you can purchase additional modules that allow you to provision, manage and monitor your subscriptions from your RHN account. Finally, briefly tell us how a reseller can benefit from the Red Hat/Open Source subscription model? The subscription model creates a relationship where the vendor has to consistently provide a high-level of service, this is why Red Hat has been number one for value in the CIO report for the last four years. It also creates an ongoing relationship where the reseller can engage with their customer on an annual basis about the subscription renewal, which unlike many other vendors is a 100 of the original year after year and presents further opportunities for discussion with the resellers clients around management and other areas of the customers infrastructure. Meet Walli Name Walli Datoo Job Title Senior Product Manager for Open Source Software Tel 020 8805 2999 Email wallidinteractiveideas www.testdriveinteractiv 0208 805 2999 Q&A Red Hat Subscriptions Walli Datoo Senior Product Manager for Open Source Software, Interactive Ideas We talk to Walli Datoo, Senior product manager for open source software at Interactive Ideas about the benefits of the Red Hat subscription model to a reseller and how it will also benefit your c Q&A Red Hat Subscriptions Since Red Hat is a subscription rather than a licence, you have access to all future versions and all previous supported versions as long as you renew your subscription. When you buy Red Hat, you are purchasing a support contract for all versions that Red Hat classify as su