Physical↔virtual portability (Socket-pair ↔ 2 Virtual Guests)
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- Kind
- Mobility
- Statement
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription guide (4 November 2025): “Subscription portability… lets you transfer a physical 2-socket subscription to a 2-virtual-instance subscription without contacting Red Hat to adjust your terms. Transferring virtual instance-pairs as physical socket-pairs is also possible.” Also: “You may migrate Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Server and related Add-on subscriptions back and forth from physical to virtual to cloud deployments without changing subscription terms, purchasing additional subscriptions, or notifying Red Hat. For example, if you have purchased a subscription for one socket-pair that you allocate to a physical machine, you can convert that socket-pair subscription to cover two virtual instances in a virtualized or cloud deployment. And you can then convert a two-instance subscription back into a socket-pair allocation.” Educational Red Hat-published guide; Appendix 1 remains binding UoM. Cloud Access has no published 2-vCPU = 1-socket conversion.
- Applies when
- Moving RHEL Server / Add-On Socket-pair entitlements between physical and virtual (or cloud guest) deployments under published subscription portability.
- Applies to
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and related Add-Ons described in the RHEL subscription guide portability section. Cloud Access still requires Eligible Subscriptions and Appendix 1 §3 terms.
- Aliases
- subscription portability; physical to virtual; socket-pair to 2 virtual instances
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