Licensing for WebSphere Hybrid Edition

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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition 5.1) is the sole and complete agreement between you and IBM regarding use of the Program.

Listing of licenses by type
What do you get with your purchase of WebSphere Hybrid Edition, and what is your entitlement?
License ratio topics
Reporting on deployment inside and across Red Hat OpenShift clusters
Differences in license terms

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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition 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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition licenses, click the link for that license:

WebSphere Hybrid Edition v5.1 Update (L-ZZBG-6V3K4K)

Table of license version

Table 1. Table of license versions
Information about the license for each edition is provided
License	Usage	Description
L-ZZBG-6V3K4K	Production or nonproduction	WebSphere Hybrid Edition 5.1 Update

What do you get with your purchase of WebSphere Hybrid Edition, and what is your entitlement?

WebSphere Hybrid Edition 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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition. Licensing for WebSphere Hybrid Edition is either perpetual, monthly, or a subscription license. Not all offerings or capabilities of WebSphere Hybrid Edition 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, WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core) under the WebSphere Hybrid Edition license, you must not exceed the maximum entitlement at any time. Deployments can include a mix of different deployed offerings, either standalone, or in WebSphere Hybrid Edition, 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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition. Deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform can be utilized for any offerings that are not bundled with WebSphere Hybrid Edition.

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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition 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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition 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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition is required for 8 VPCs of WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core deployment for either production or non-production usage.

Entitlements of WebSphere Hybrid Edition 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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition license entitlements according to the ratio?

Table 2. Production and non-production license ratio
For each VPC of WebSphere Hybrid Edition, the allowable number of deployments of the indicated product is provided
Capability	VPC ratio (capability : WebSphere Hybrid Edition)
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment	1:1
WebSphere Application Server	4:1
WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core	8:1

Note: Production and non-production usage have the same consumption ratios.

To review your WebSphere Hybrid Edition entitlements and to convert them into product entitlements using the Production and non-production license ratio table, use the conversion calculator at IBM Software Central. An IBMid is required; create an account if you do not already have one. After you log in, click Conversion calculators in the main navigation panel.

Noncharged entitlements for WebSphere Hybrid Edition

Deployment ratios apply to the bundled programs within WebSphere Hybrid Edition only. Additional WebSphere Hybrid Edition capabilities or components, such as IBM Transformation Advisor, IBM Mono2Micro, and IBM® WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit, can be deployed without requiring WebSphere Hybrid Edition VPCs to be counted against their deployment.

How add-ons affect your entitlement

If you purchase IBM Modernization Runtime Environment for Java™ as an add-on to WebSphere Hybrid Edition and want to understand how it affects your entitlement, see Licensing for IBM Modernization Runtime Environment for Java.

Reporting on deployment inside and across Red Hat OpenShift clusters

WebSphere Hybrid Edition reporting using the VPC metric

Deployments under WebSphere Hybrid Edition 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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition VPC entitlements, the license service available to WebSphere Hybrid Edition 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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition 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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition entitlements.

For more information about the IBM Cloud Platform License Service as used by deployments of WebSphere Hybrid Edition, see IBM License Service.

Differences in license terms

The license terms for WebSphere Hybrid Edition 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.