Licensing for IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes

Edit online

This document provides information about licensing and entitlements for IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes.

Important: This Licensing Guide provides supplementary information to assist you in deploying the Programs you have licensed from IBM within your purchased entitlement. Your license agreement (such as the IBM International Program License Agreement (IPLA) or equivalent, and its transaction documents, including the License Information for IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes 1.0) is the sole and complete agreement between you and IBM regarding use of the Program.

Listing of licenses by type

This product supports the following license metrics as a unit of measure for usage of the licensed software:

  • Virtual Processor Core (VPC)

You can learn about license metric definition and guidance at Passport Advantage / Passport Common License Types & Definitions.

These licenses are used when creating instances of the IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes components, in the spec.license.license field of each custom resource:

Full licenses

Full licenses provide the option to utilize any of the enumerated and entitled products at the specified ratio consumptions.

To review the license agreements for any of the following full IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes licenses, click the link for that license:

Table of license version
Table 1. Table of license versions

Information about the license is provided
License Usage Description
L-ZLUL-L7PQ9W Production or nonproduction IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes 1.0

What do you get with your purchase of IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes, and what is your entitlement?

IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes offers an enterprise-ready, containerized software solution for modernizing existing applications and developing new cloud-native apps that run on Red Hat OpenShift. The product is supported on both x86, Linux on Power, and Linux for IBM z.

The program contains bundled offerings that include:
The program contains component offerings that include:

These offerings can be run in containers as a part of the program or as stand-alone deployments of these offerings outside of IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes. Licensing for IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes is either perpetual, monthly, or a subscription license. Not all offerings or capabilities of IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes are supported currently on Linux on Power or Linux on IBM z.

When you deploy bundled offerings (such as WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and Modernized Runtime Extension for Java, WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core) under the IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes license, you must not exceed the maximum entitlement at any time. Deployments can include a mix of different deployed offerings, either standalone, or in IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes, or a combination of both. Customers can change the deployed offerings at any time as long as they never exceed their maximum entitlement. Deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is not required for deployment of bundled offerings within IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes. Deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform can be utilized for any offerings that are not bundled with IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes.

If customers with perpetual license entitlement do not renew Subscription and Support, their support access key expires, and they are no longer able to download product images from the IBM entitled registry (cp.icr,io). They therefore lose access to the product images unless they mirror the product images from the IBM entitled registry to a customer-owned registry (before Subscription and Support lapses) and configure their system to pull from this registry.

Support availability for each IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes release follows the published support model as described in the announcement letter. For an updated view of which releases are supported and whether fixes are available for each release, review the Support page.

License ratio topics

License ratio

Deployed instances of capabilities in IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes are charged at different rates based on their ratios. An example of ratio use that is provided in the Production and non-production license ratio table is that 1 VPC of IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes is required for 11 VPCs of WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core deployment for either production or non-production usage.

Entitlements of IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes that are used in these ratios can be reused in other ratios at any time, as long as the total entitlement is not exceeded. There is no limit to the number of times that entitlements can be used in different combinations.

What consumes IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes license entitlements according to the ratio?
Table 2. Production and non-production license ratio

For each VPC of IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes, the allowable number of deployments of the indicated product is provided
Capability VPC ratio (capability : IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes)
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and Modernized Runtime Extension for Java 1:1
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment 1:1
Red Hat Runtimes 3:2
WebSphere Application Server 11:2
WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core 11:1
Note: Production and non-production usage have the same consumption ratios.
Noncharged entitlements for IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes
Deployment ratios apply to the bundled programs within IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes only. Additional IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes capabilities or components, such as IBM Application Modernization Accelerator, IBM Application Modernization Accelerator Developer Tools, IBM Transformation Advisor, IBM Mono2Micro, and IBM Migration Toolkit, can be deployed without requiring IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes VPCs to be counted against their deployment.

Reporting on deployment inside and across Red Hat OpenShift clusters

IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes reporting using the VPC metric

Deployments under IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes entitlement can continue to be deployed on the same hardware, and in the same VMs as previously measured and reported with PVUs. Recent updates to IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) now allow it to track deployments of software programs entitled under VPCs. Use ILMT to keep track of software deployed in VMs and entitled under VPCs.

For containers under IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes VPC entitlements, the license service available to IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes deployments can be configured to report the deployments of each bundled offering in each container. It can also report the container size and how that relates—using the VPC-to-license ratio—to IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes entitlements.

You can also report deployment aggregates for each Red Hat OpenShift cluster to provide a high-water mark of deployment to track against customer IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes entitlements.

For more information about the IBM Cloud Platform License Service as used by deployments of IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes, see IBM Licensing Service.

Differences in license terms

The license terms for IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes supersede the license terms of the bundled offerings. However, this policy applies only when there is a conflict of terms. Terms that apply to the bundled programs still apply, if not superseded.