sarahATnotrex asked a question.
How do I license an individual VM in Snow?
What do I have to do to license an individual VM in Snow (Windows Server Standard core with a minmum of 8 cores, in stead of based on physical host). How do I set this up in Snow? I want to be able to add and assign required # of Windows Server Standard 2-core licenses and have the compliance report reflecting the same? (I want to license indivual VM´s in a small cluster rather than on the physical host level.)
I was in belief that this could managed in some way - or do I have to add a compliance exclusion add the servers in scope and manage license compliance outside of Snow in this scenario?
Did you try to directly assign the license to the virtual machine?
You only need to add the virtual machine in license assignments, same as for physical machines.
But you need to consider SLM version. This feature was released with SLM 9.32 Releasenotes.
In case you refer to Atlas I can't tell you if that is already available
In SLM you then can use License tracking per computer report, this will show you the detailed license assignements per computer. You can add a lot of columns to that report, although for example Coverage Reason. In case of assignment to a VM you could find there "Named computer" instead of "Licensed by host"
But to cover the VM SLM will also consider, if the license has an active Software Assurance, by checking the license Maintenance period and Upgrade rights
Detailed information you can find in linked Release Notes