Licensing for IBM Cloud Paks

When you integrate the Software Asset Management publisher pack for IBM with Software Asset Management providers that are authorized to participate in the IBM Client Value Acceleration (CVA) Program, the Software Asset Management application supports licensing rules for IBM Cloud Paks.

An IBM Cloud Pak is a prepackaged set of IBM software products that can help you achieve a specific business goal. For example, the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation contains various IBM software products that automate business operations to help improve performance.

Each IBM Cloud Pak is licensed as a bundle using a supported IBM license metric, such as the Virtual Processor Core (VPC) license metric. However, you can determine the total number of rights that are required for a Cloud Pak based on the number of rights that are required for each software product within the Cloud Pak. These software products are also referred to as Bundled Programs. You can calculate the number of rights that are required for a Bundled Program by using a supported IBM license metric, such as the VPC and Resource Value Unit (RVU) license metrics. You must then use a corresponding conversion ratio to convert this number to the number of rights that are required for deploying the Bundled Program as part of the Cloud Pak. After you convert this number for each Bundled Program that you want to deploy, you can use the sum of the converted numbers to determine the total number of rights that are required for the Cloud Pak.

In the following example, a user wants to deploy various Bundled Programs as part of the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration:

Bundled Program within the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration	Bundled Program to Cloud Pak ratio	Number of rights required for the Bundled Program	Number of rights required for deploying the Bundled Program as part of the Cloud Pak
MQ Advanced	2 VPCs: 1 VPC	40	20
App Connect Enterprise	1 VPC: 3 VPCs	20	60
API Connect	1 VPC: 1 VPC	10	10
Datapower	1 VPC: 1 VPC	10	10

Based on the conversion ratios and the number of rights that are required for each Bundled Program, you must license the Cloud Pak using a total of 100 rights.

See IBM virtual processor core (VPC) licenses for more information on VPC licensing.