Sub-capacity is a discount
you re-earn every thirty minutes.
CerteroX keeps the continuous measurement IBM requires for its discounted licensing, so you keep the discount and can prove you earned it.
IBM sub-capacity
IllustrativeWebSphere deployment · PVU metric
ILMT connected · compliance gap analysis
- Inventory cycle the sub-capacity requirement
- ≤ 30 min · met
- Sub-capacity PVUs partition-level entitlement
- 1,400
- Full-capacity equivalent what you owe if the cycle lapses
- 3,200
- ILMT reporting gaps agents installed but not reporting
- 2 hosts
- Unresolved components deployed, awaiting a product match
- 12
Component Resolution
86 scored suggestions, bulk-appliable
IBM’s discount comes with conditions.
IBM lets you pay for the capacity you actually use instead of the whole machine, but only if you can prove that usage continuously. Miss the measurement and the bill reverts to full capacity. CerteroX monitors those conditions and keeps the evidence.
- Cost
Keep the lower licence basis.
The measurement IBM requires is monitored all the time, so you are not pushed back onto full-capacity pricing by a gap in reporting.
- Risk
Evidence that goes back in time.
Changes in machine capacity are recorded as they happen, so you can defend your position for any past period IBM asks about.
- Effort
Matching done once, not every audit.
Installed software is matched to the IBM products that cover it in bulk, instead of line by line by a specialist.
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