How do we calculate licenses correctly for VMware vCenter Server 6 Standard Instance when there is 1 license per managing cluster?
Currently, CA Software Asset Manager miscalculates each ESXi host to have 1 instance. As per VMware's licensing rules, only 1 vCenter license is needed per managing cluster. This means 1 cluster having 18 physicals hosts would still require 1 instance license only.
The problem is that CA Software Asset Manager maps the hosts to a cluster, but since the cluster is not a 'device' per say, how do we enter the data to obtain a correct calculation?
CA Software Asset Manager 4.x releases
Perform the following resolution steps:
1. In “Catalog > License metrics > Tiers” create a new tier
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2. Go to “Catalog > License metrics > Tiers > Tier ranges” and create following range
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3. Navigate to “Catalog > License metrics” and create a metric based on the new tier. Select “Topology” as scope to count each cluster only once.
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4. Make sure the product reported as installed on the ESX hosts has the new metric assigned
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6. Check the result via the Topology graph. See that the whole cluster counts as 1 demand
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