Pricing metric for Virtual Processor Cores

A Virtual Processor Core (VPC) is a unit of measurement by which a program can be licensed. You must obtain entitlement for each VPC made available to the program.

The pricing of IBM® MQ is based on the number of VPCs that your server uses. A VPC can be either a virtual core assigned to a virtual server, or a processor core in a non-partitioned physical server. You must license each virtual processor made available to the IBM MQ.

For more information about how to determine the usage of VPCs, see Virtual Processor Core (VPC). This article explains how to use the IBM License Metric Tool to configure and create a report that you can use to determine the number of VPCs that you need to license. The article includes examples of how to calculate VPC consumption for virtual and physical server environments.