IBM Processor Value Unit (PVU) and Virtual Processor Core (VPC) licenses can use sub-capacity to determine the license consumption required for virtual machines. In cloud environments, IBM uses virtual CPUs (vCPUs) to calculate sub-capacity for both license types. In Flexera One IT Asset Management, the number of vCPUs is displayed differently depending on whether the device is hosted on-premises or in the cloud.

How vCPU values are displayed

For VMs, VM Hosts, and computers running in on-premise environments, (where the Hosted in property is set to On-premises):

• The Cores value is used to display vCPUs.
• If Cores is empty, the Processors value is used.

For cloud-hosted devices (where Hosted in is set to anything other than On-premises):

• The Threads value is used to display vCPUs.
• If Threads is empty, Cores is used.
• If Cores is also empty, Processors is used.

When using the FlexNet Inventory agent to collect inventory, the number of threads is reported in the NDI file as the "Number of Logical Processors."

Overriding hardware values

If any hardware values are not being collected by your inventory source, they can be overridden from the Hardware tab of the inventory device.