Virtuel Machines in dynamic Cluster

[markus_busse]

Dear Spider-Community,

Following Situation:  We have a dynamic cluster, means the cluster contsists of 6 Servers and in the cluster 10 virtual machines are running.  The VM dynamically changing the servers. On the servers the OS is Windows Server 2012 Standard. 

Question: How will Spider calculate the licence requirement per Server, respectively what we have  to do in Spider, to get the correct licence requirement calculated?

Thanks and Regards Markus

[ledeckyv]

Do you have proper relationship between physical host and VM?

[markus_busse]

What means "proper relationship"? Yes we have the "current snap shot" relationship given by the scanning System. Means e.g. relationship between Server01 to VM01 & VM02; Server02 to VM03-VM05, ...

But how or does Spider knows, that all VM can be run on just one Server at a time. So from our perspective all Servers has been licenced for 10 VMs, but how can we achieve this without manuell effort in Spider?

[ledeckyv]

I Hope that Spider can recognize it, otherwise it is not in human force to maintain it (for Windows server standard edition) manually especially when you have large IT environment.
So I am keen to see an answer 🙂

[markus_busse]

@jborchers @james_ellis 

Hi Jan, Hi James,

do you have a solution or suggestion for the problem/Ssituation?

Best Regards Markus