Calculating available and reserved capacity

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When you reserve license capacity by actions in the Licenses, Work Order Tracking, or Activities and Tasks applications, calculations occur that affect the following fields in the Licenses application:
  • The Reserved Capacity field is increased with the additional capacity that you reserve. The value in the Reserved Capacity field is cumulative and displays the total quantity of capacity that is reserved for a license.
  • The quantity of available capacity is recalculated, and the reserved capacity is subtracted from the amount of capacity available. The value in the Available Capacity field is updated with the revised calculation.

The Available Capacity field displays the total amount of entitled capacity minus allocated and reserved capacity. Typically the total quantity of all internal allocations plus reserved capacity should be less than or equal to the license capacity. However, because some licenses permit capacity realignment based on a reevaluation of capacity growth over some period of time before the license agreement expires, it is possible to have a negative quantity in the Available Capacity field.

If the total license capacity is exceeded, determine whether the license agreement permits additional capacity to be added at a later date. If the license capacity cannot be realigned later, you can adjust license allocations so that they do not exceed the license capacity available.