METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO DETERMINE APPLICATION LICENSE COSTS IN A VIRTUALIZED DATA CENTER

摘要

Methods and systems to compute application license costs of a number of applications run on virtual machines of a virtualized data center are described. In one aspect, one or more of the virtual machines (“VMs”) that form the virtual data center are determined. Each VM is created from hardware components specifications of one or more application blueprints stored in a data-storage devices. The one or more blueprints are searched to determine the one more applications that run in each VM. For each VM, a total VM application licensing cost of the one or more applications is computed based on one or more of an application instance license cost, application socket license cost, and application core license of each of the one or more applications associated with each application.

主权项

1. A method stored in one or more data-storage devices and executed using one or more processors of a computing environment to compute application license cost in a physical data center, the method comprising:
determining one or more virtual machines (“VMs”) that form a virtual data center that runs in a physical data center; and for each VM,
determining one or more application blueprints stored in the one or more data-storage devices and used to create the VM,determining one or more applications that run in the VM based on the one or more application blueprints,computing a total VM application licensing cost of the one or more applications based on one or more of an application instance license cost, application socket license cost, and application core license of each of the one or more applications, andstoring the total VM application licensing, cost in the one or more data-storage devices.