[SOLVED] What feature is missing in PVE 7.4 without subscription?

jimmymcheung

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If I navigate to pricing page, I can see even the community version provides a “complete feature-set”, but the advertisement claim that the free version is only lacking the enterprise repo and the support. This brought me to the question: what else is missing if unpaid? I’m evaluating whether to purchase a subscription since I don’t need the enterprise repo, because except from the out-of-box softwares I mostly download them from the official site. I might need the proxmox support but I’m also not sure, it would just be a insurance in case I need a support.
 
There are three repositories:
  1. pvetest: [1] - Accessible for everyone. Should be used only for (early) testing.
  2. pve-no-subscription: [2] - Accessible for everyone. Should be used, if one does not have a subscription.
  3. pve-enterprise: [3] - Accessible only with an active subscription.

New/updated packages are pushed (with time in between) into the respective repository in the above order (so: after internal testing, into 1, then into 2, then into 3).
Afaik, all packages are ever identical; so there are no feature (or anything else) differences.

Having no subscription and therefore using the: pve-no-subscription repository, one is basically a release candidate tester for the ones with an active subscription, that are using the: pve-enterprise repository.

If you do not have a subscription, see here: [4] how to set up your PVE-host to get updates.

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_Repositories#sysadmin_test_repo
[2] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_Repositories#sysadmin_no_subscription_repo
[3] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_Repositories#sysadmin_enterprise_repo
[4] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/reboot-occurs-randomly.119840/post-520320
 
In addition to what others said:
Some (or even all??) companies need to have a person that can be asked in case of a problem or an error. That person could be internal or for most companies external via general software support. This is where a (non entry-level) subscription comes into play. Often you pay someone just to ask them for support if you have an error.

The entry-level subscription without support is for people like me (and many others) that can solve problems themselves, but still want to support the great product Proxmox VE.
 
Can I concluded that it’s only the enterprise repo and the support it is missing? I was confused that they listed complete feature-set and enterprise repo separately.
 
The packages and features are the same between enterprise repo and no subscription repo. (The packages are first release in no subscription, then a little be latter in the enterprise repo).

You also have an extra feature in no-subscription, the nagscreen at login ^_^