I hope this helps clears up some of the questions around counting PVUs in a VMware environment. There is no difference in cost or part numbers for a physical or a sub-capacity license. Either way IBM gives you the benefit the lowest count. When it is the other way around and you have more physical server cores than allocated virtual cores, then you can count the virtual cores. So, when you have situation where there are more virtual cores that the physical server cores, then count physical cores. You may have to use the IBM Licensing Metric Tool (ILMT) which is available at no cost. Note, that since you are taking advantage of the sub-capacity you will be subject to the PVU counting rules.
#IBM TSM CLIENT DOWNLOAD LICENSE#
(the PVUs/core is the same as the physical server calculation)įor the SQL server VM, I will need the TSM EE license which the 11520 PVUs covers, and then the 480 PVUs of TSM for Databases. So, in this case I would count like this:Ĥ cores * 120 PVUs/core = 480 PVUs. I could license 11520 PVUs of TSM for Databases and cover all the VMs but here I have only allocated 4 virtual processor cores to the VM running SQL. I can then take advantage of the sub-capacity rules.įor example, I'm running a SQL server on the VMware cluster. Now I have a situation where the virtual cores assigned is going to less than the total physical cores. I never have to license more than the physical cores. The actual developer of the program is IBM. The program's installer is commonly called dsm.exe, dsmc.exe, dsmadmc.exe, VAG.EXE or wzrdhlpr.exe etc.
#IBM TSM CLIENT DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE#
We cannot confirm if there is a free download of this software available. If I put on 400 VMs at 2 virtual processors each or 800 virtual cores (which is more than the 96 physical cores), I don't have to count those virtual cores. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1 was available to download from the developer's website when we last checked. What this means is now is that I need 11520 PVUs TSM EE to license all the VMs on the cluster. Since I have 2 ESX servers in my cluster, the total number of PVUs will be 2 * 5670 PVUs/server or 11520 PVUs. Per server PVUs = 8 (# sockets) * 6 (# cores/socket) * 120 PVUs/core = 5670 PVUs To license the cluster it will work out like this:
So if I have 2 physical servers in my VMware cluster, and they have 8 sockets each and are the new Nehalem EX with 6 cores for each socket. In general, for TSM EE license you are going to count the physical cores in your VM Cluster.
You are going to be counting physical cores and virtual cores in a VMware environment. You need to review the full-capacity and sub-capacity licensing rules. Please review the IBM PVU calculation documents on IBM.com
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