License usage on Azure Local and cmdb class

[Dixon Leong]

Hi, have 2 question related to the topic.

1. would like to understand how do we capture license usage on Azure Local  (a virtualization solution on the on-prem estate)
2. How would the cmdb class be modeled so that SamPro could still calculate the correct consumption for licensing involving virtualisation (i.e Ms Windows Server). Currently VM (in server class) has a relationship virtualize by ESX Server. Is there an out of box class for the physical host (where Azure Local virtualise the VM should be created to in cmdb ?

[dreinhardt]

Hi @Dixon Leong,

based on the following details provided by MSFT (Azure Local solution overview - Azure Local | Microsoft Learn) Azure Local is based on Hyper-V, and Hyper-V is supported by ITOM Discovery to get all required relationships (Hyper-V discovery). For VM and Container inventory, I would recommend Discovery agent-less and agent-based (Acc-V)

Best, Dennis

[Dixon Leong]

Just sharing, below the reponse i got from HI support:

If you're referring to on-premises or hosted Azure Stack (also sometimes called "Azure Local"), identifying this in CMDB manually would require custom attributes or clear naming conventions.

There is no standard single identifier in CMDB out-of-the-box unless you use discovery tools, but you can represent Azure Local usage by:

1.Setting a custom field or tag like location_type = Azure Stack or hosting_type = Azure Local.
2. Setting Cloud Service or similar CI class to reflect the hosting environment.

The relationships you’re looking for (especially without using Discovery) are:

Host virtualizes VM cmdb_rel_ci Virtualizes::Virtualized by
VM is virtualized by Host cmdb_rel_ci Virtualized by::Virtualizes