IBM Software licensing rules on public clouds
IBM software that is installed on computers that run on public clouds is licensed
according to the IBM BYOSL policy. To ensure that license metric utilization is properly
calculated for such software, computers must be identified as running on public
clouds.
For more information, see: IBM Eligible Public Cloud BYOSL Policy.
Supported public clouds
Public clouds that are currently supported by BigFix Inventory include:
- Amazon EC2
- IBM SoftLayer
- Microsoft Azure
Google Compute Engine
Oracle Compute Instance
Alibaba Elastic Compute Service
IBM Power Virtual Server
Tencent Cloud Server Instance
NEC Cloud IaaS Instance
Fujitsu Cloud IaaS Instance
FJcloud-V
FJcloud-O
NTT Enterprise Cloud Server
KDDI Cloud
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KDDI Cloud for Windows - Windows VMs can now be marked as a Public Cloud.
Limitations
BigFix Inventory does not support public cloud VMs that are identified by duplicated serial numbers. The serial number is usually the UUID of the virtual machine that is assigned by the VM manager of the particular public cloud.