What is pvu

Web Content Viewer Display content menu Display portlet menu. Generally, for Sub-Capacity Licensing, you may license to the lower of: PVUs for the maximum number of virtual cores in the virtual machines VMs available to the Program at any given time or PVUs for the maximum number of physical cores in the server available to the Program at any given time.

The manual spreadsheet is provided at: Download here. This means that the number of cores to be licensed via sub-capacity will never exceed the total of full-capacity licensing. For example, if you are limiting your use of a virtualized server with sixteen cores to just four cores for use with your IBM software, the following requirement would apply. However, while you may not be required to install ILMT you will still be required to create a manual report most often an Excel spreadsheet , which does not necessarily involve less work.

Unless you really understand all the complexities of the program, you will likely require the assistance of an outside consultant. For example, every software component must be confirmed, reassigned, or excluded.

Once all the software findings have been processed, the compliance report can be run and submitted to IBM. The License Metric Tool is also subject to strict regulations.

Customers need to create reports quarterly. For example, you have 16 cores on your virtualized server and allocate 4 cores to Planning Analytics PA.

Even if you only allocated 4 cores, you could fail the audit just for not having the ILMT tool installed. From a business perspective, the savings that can be achieved through purchasing PVU and sub-capacity licensing should be weighed carefully with the additional costs that may be incurred through managing the ILMT requirements.

For a review of your licensing and help to better understand the reporting requirements, please contact eCapital Advisors. Therefore, entering a sub-capacity agreement can result in significantly reduced licensing costs. However, sub-capacity licensing also requires that IBM customers meet some requirements. For example, Enhance Consumer can be purchase either way. They only care how many named users you have. Another important thing to note is when you have authorized users the Program may be installed on any number of computers or servers and each Authorized User may have simultaneous access to any number of instances of the Program at one time.

So, no need for Non- Production environment licenses unless there are laws that require you to have it licensed, which is rare. Below is the link to the official licensing of IBM Cognos. You may want to study the Authorized user and Processor Value Unit sections.

To help figure out if you have the correct licensing model, please contact Lodestar Solutions. We are updating our mailing lists!