I’d bet that’s accurate. The CEO very clearly did not understand the licensing models because you don’t pay per core for RHEL licenses; this isn’t Oracle. VDC l

I’d bet that’s accurate. The CEO very clearly did not understand the licensing models because you don’t pay per core for RHEL licenses; this isn’t Oracle. VDC licenses are cheap: MSRP is $4k USD per hypervisor with premium support, and I’m sure you can negotiate a discount at a certain size. You can probably game VDC licensing if you really wanted (I’m not endorsing the idea of stealing from Red Hat, and to be clear, my company isn’t interested in getting sued to save what amounts to pocket change for them). Or you could switch to OpenShift for virtualization (because who isn’t at least _considering_ dumping VMWare now that Broadcom owns them?) and container management, and run all the RHEL VMs and UBIs your heart desires.