PVU sub-capacity — lower of virtual vs physical
Catalog row in Vendor License Evidence · Cited
- Kind
- Policy excerpt
- Excerpt
- Generally, for any Eligible Product installed in an Eligible Virtualization Environment, you may license to the lower of: The maximum number of virtual cores in the virtual machines (VMs) available to the Eligible Product at any given time or The physical capacity of the Server where the VMs are hosted when the Virtual Capacity exceeds total physical capacity of the server. The total number of cores would then be applied to any conversion ratio: For PVUs: You can determine the correct number of PVUs per core by referring to the PVU table.
- Locator
- Sub-capacity licensing — Virtualization Capacity counting (lower of)
- Applies to
- Eligible Products in Eligible Virtualization Environments under Passport Advantage sub-capacity
- Aliases
- lower-of; virtual vs physical capacity
- Supports rules
- Related metrics
- Related programs