Rajnandini2910 asked a question.
FlexeraOne License Consumption Calculation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
I have purchased the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server product with the license metric defined as “2 sockets, 1 physical / 2 virtual nodes.” According to this metric, a single license can be used in either of the following ways:
- On one physical server with up to two processor sockets, or
- On two virtual machines or cloud virtual machines.
Can FlexeraOne calculate license consumption for such metrics? If so, could you please explain how these licenses should be modeled and configured in FlexeraOne
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Hi
Easiest is that you already have a purchase in the system with the SKU number. Then in the unprocessed purchase view you can process that purchase and it will create a license container with the right settings.
If you want to do it manually its basically Processer Points with a ruleset named RHEL for Virtual Datacenters.
The ruleset will assign the right number of points based on 1, 2 or greater number of processors (sockets).
The only risk I see is if you have servers with more sockets than you have processors, then you probably need to import or set the number of sockets on the inventory device
Hi mag, I'm also facing a similar issue with my Flexera One. So, if I do select "Processor Points" and then select "RHEL for Virtual Datacenters", will it assign 1 license to 2 virtual machines (including GCP, Azure and AWS deployments) and then 1 license to 1 physical machine. Basically 1 license should cover 2 VMs or 1 Physical Machine.
... and just to add that I personally think you may also have to override the processor counts on VMs to make the Processor Points counts appropriately...
Thanks,
John Sorensen