Socket-pair stacking / cannot split across systems
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- Kind
- Restriction
- Statement
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription guide (4 November 2025): Socket-pair is “Up to two sockets where each is occupied by a CPU on a system.” Subscriptions “can ‘stack’ to scale to any size system” (e.g., 4-socket needs 2 subscriptions; 8-socket needs 4). For one-socket systems: “Each of these must be entitled with a socket-pair subscription. This subscription type cannot be split across different physical systems.” Educational guide — does not supersede Appendix 1; Appendix 1 Table 1.1 defines Socket-pair as “up to two Sockets.” Two single-socket servers therefore require two Socket-pair subscriptions.
- Applies when
- Entitling physical RHEL Server deployments with Socket-pair Units, including one-socket and multi-socket stacking.
- Applies to
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Socket-pair physical entitlements and Add-Ons that follow the same socket-pair model per the guide. Not Core-pair OpenShift packing.
- Aliases
- socket-pair stackable; cannot split socket-pair; one-socket needs full socket-pair
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