Virtual appliances under sub-capacity counting
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- Kind
- Virtualization
- Statement
- IBM: virtual appliances (such as an OVA booted from VMware ESXi) are supported under sub-capacity licensing; all compute must be charged under sub-capacity counting rules with eligible operating systems, virtualization technologies and approved tooling. ILMT scanner support is product by product.
- Applies when
- Deploying an IBM product delivered as a virtual appliance.
- Applies to
- IBM virtual appliance offerings. Effective date: not stated on the cited IBM page (undated web page); retrieved 2026-09-26.
- Aliases
- OVA; virtual appliance
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