Licensing on public clouds
Software that is installed on computers that run on public clouds is licensed according to the BYOSL policy. To ensure that license metric utilization is properly calculated for such software, computers must be identified as running on public clouds.
BYOSL policy
Software that is installed on a public cloud is licensed according to the BYOSL policy. For more information, see: Eligible Public Cloud BYOSL Policy.
Supported public clouds
Alibaba Elastic Compute Service
- Amazon EC2
- Fujitsu Cloud IaaS Instance
FJcloud-V
FJcloud-O
Google Compute Engine
IBM Cloud® LinuxONE VS (full name: IBM Cloud LinuxONE Virtual Servers for VPC)
IBM® Power® Virtual Server
- IBM SoftLayer®
KDDI Cloud
- Microsoft Azure
NEC Cloud IaaS Instance
NTT Cloud Services Division (NTT Data)
NTT Enterprise Cloud Server
NTT IaaS Powered by VMware
Oracle Compute Instance
Tencent Cloud Server Instance
Operating systems supported on public clouds
- Windows
- Linux
- AIX
Identifying computers as running on public clouds
If a computer runs on a public cloud but is not identified as such, it has the No VM Manager Data or No Scan Data status on the Capacity Scan Health widget on the Dashboard. Subcapacity values for the software that is installed on this computer might be incorrectly calculated.
In case of IBM Power Virtual Server and IBM Cloud LinuxONE VS, the status of the computer might be OK even if the computer is not marked as a public cloud. However, its subcapacity value might still be incorrectly calculated.
Limitations
License Metric Tool does not support public cloud VMs that are identified by duplicated serial numbers. The serial number is usually the UUID of the virtual machine that is assigned by the VM manager of the particular public cloud.