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Changing deployment type mid-term: use the highest valued Subscription

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Kind
Restriction
Statement
Product Appendices (June 2026) Appendix A §2: to change the deployment type of a Product during the Subscription period, you must choose the highest valued Subscription matching your deployment types. A higher valued "1-2 Sockets with Unlimited Virtual Machines" Subscription may continue to be used for a lower valued "1-2 Sockets or 1-2 Virtual Machines" scenario, but not the reverse. A SLES Subscription must not be used as a Subscription for SLES for SAP Applications.
Applies when
Moving a SLES workload between physical, low-density and high-density deployment during the term.
Applies to
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server; SLES for SAP Applications.
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