License Over assignment

McCormick asked a question.

February 12, 2018 at 8:00 AM

Hello,

What are possible reasons for "License Over assignment" ? I assigned the licenses to DC as per the MS licensing rule ( min 8 license per proc & 16 lic per server) but when I am running a report "Invalid assignment" it's saying few license are over-assigned. See the below screen shot. DC has 10 proc and 60 cores. I assigned 8 lic to each proc so total is 80 but error is showing Over assignment.

Is there any thing I am missing? because the same thing I did for other DC and getting no error.

Regards,

Saurabh

Oliver Berger (Flexera Software)
8 years ago
Hi Saurabh, overassignment could also mean, that the Application you licensed wasn't found on this Server / Datacenter. In your case, there are 0 of 18 VMs inventoried. That causes the SLM to inform you about the overassignment. Best Oliver
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- McCormick
  8 years ago
  Hi Oliver, I got your point. So,particularly in this case what I figured it out: 1) Out of 18 VM, 10 VMs are powered off and 8 are powered on, so these 8 has Linux OS installed. this could be the reason that VM are not discovered by Snow. So here If VM is powered off. Does it need to have licenses assigned to this? Is there 90 days rule applied for Powered off / Powered on? Regards, Saurabh
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  - Oliver Berger (Flexera Software)
    8 years ago
    Well. Depends, I would say. You do not have any information about the Software inventory from the virtual machines, because there is no agent inside the VM sending the data the Snow License Manager needs. You just have the knowledge that there are different VMs running or not running on the cluster / hypervisor. So if this is around assigning Windows Server Datacenter per Core licenses, you should follow the information provided and use them somewhere else. But to be honest, you just don't know with the lack of information. Maybe the datacenter is just in a pre-productive phase, before all windows server vms get migrated to it. In this case, it would be smart to have licenses assigned before. The "90 days rule" doesn't care about, if a virtual machine is running or not. It cares about how long you or a Tool have assigned a license to some sort of hardware or a user, before you are allowed to reassign it. Snow License Manager will (currently) not prevent you from things like re-assigning licenses to early. Best Oliver
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    McCormick
    8 years ago
    Hi Oliver, Thank you so much for your response. I understand your point. I have other scenarios where I assigned the data center licenses to server. all VMs are discovered and inventoried but again it's showing over assigned. Processor/Cores = 8/88 VM( Inventoried) = 43 Assigned Datacenter licenses: 88 Coming back to your first post, When I looked at the applications on this server there was no Datacenter edition is installed. So I think because Datacenter edition is not installed and I am assigning Datacenter licenses to that server to cover VMs is the reason for over assignment. If that is the case because there are other editions are installed on server then Snow should take care of downgrade path? Thanks Saurabh
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    Oliver Berger (Flexera Software)
    8 years ago
    Hi Saurabh, if you activate the "Cross edition rights" and the "Downgrade rights" on the license, it should show exactly the behavior you wish to see. Best Oliver
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    McCormick
    8 years ago
    Hi Oliver, I already applied these settings. Regards, Saurabh
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McCormick
8 years ago
What I figured it out that VM residing on Data centers have no windows server data center edition installed, most of the VMs have windows server standard edition installed. But I guess Snow should consider and apply downgrade rights. Why then over-assignment error is coming? Is it a bug in Snow?
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- Oliver Berger (Flexera Software)
  8 years ago
  Hi Saurabh, did you already try to bind the license to the physical host instead of the Datacenter? If you think you found a strange behavior, just open a ticket in the Snow Support - they should be able to clarify this. Best Oliver
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