Calculating license usage
The IBM Security Verify Access virtual appliance is not detected by IBM License Metric Tool. To calculate license usage, create a Processor Value Unit (PVU) report.
We must manually create the Processor Value Unit (PVU) report. We must determine the number and speed of the central processing units (CPUs) on the virtual machine (VM).Steps
- Select the hypervisor that we are using.
- VMware
- Open the vSphere Client and connect to the ISAM appliance.
- Supply the host name and the user name and password.
- Select the ISAM appliance from the list of VMs.
- Select the Summary tab to view the number of CPUs assigned. In the General section of the tab there is a line similar to the following entry.
CPU: 1 vCPU
- Select the Resource Allocation tab to view the speed of the processors. The CPU section of the tab displays information similar to the following entry:
Host CPU 0 MHz ---> 2800 MHz Consumed: 52.00 MHz
- Exit the VSphere Client. Retain this information for use in the next steps.
KVM See the KVM documentation.
Consult the following document for specific instructions on how to calculate the PVUs for the target application (the virtual appliance). See page 8 of the document: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/SubCapacity/x86_Scenarios.pdf
Use the data that you collect to place entries in the following spreadsheet. See the instructions within the spreadsheet. Retain the spreadsheet and data in the event of a license compliance audit.
Parent topic: Virtual appliance tasks