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Using IBM License Metric Tool to determine the license consumption associated with IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Abstract

The IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments product offering is enabled for discovery by IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT).

This document describes the steps required to use ILMT to determine the license consumption of IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for HyperV and IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware.

General ILMT documentation is available here:
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JFY_9.2.0/com.ibm.lmt.doc/welcome/LMT_welcome.html


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Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V

Data that is protected by this product is always on the same host where the software is installed. Therefore, you can use ILMT to determine the license consumption that is associated with this product without any additional steps required.



 

Data Protection for VMware


Data that is protected by this product is usually not on the same host where the software is installed.
Therefore, the following steps must be taken before you can use ILMT to automatically determine the license consumption:

1. Compile a list of virtual machines (VMs) that are being backed up by Data Protection for VMware:
  • To view VMs that are being backed up, complete one of the following set of steps:
      1. Open the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI.
      2. Click Restore on the menu bar.
      3. Expand the list in the navigation pane to identify all VMs that were backed up.
    or
      1. Open the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI.
      2. Click Backup on the menu bar.
      3. Identify all VMs that are scheduled for backup.

2. Deploy the IBM Spectrum Protect Data Protection for VMware Managed Node tag to the Virtual Machines:

3. Install the BigFix client and deploy ILMT scanner on the VMs that are being backed up:
 

4. Configure the ILMT VM Manager Tool so that it can connect to either the vCenter or the individual ESX / ESXi boxes where these VMs exist.

You are now ready for automatic determination of license consumption of Data Protection for VMware.

 

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Document Information

Modified date:
26 March 2019

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