About the Symantec Performance Value Unit for VMware virtual machines
InfoScale Operations Manager cannot calculate the Symantec Performance Value Units (SPVU) for the products installed on the VMware virtual machines if it cannot recognize the mapping between the VMware ESX virtualization server and the virtual machines. To enable InfoScale Operations Manager to recognize the mapping between the VMware ESX virtualization server and the virtual machines, you must perform the following tasks:
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Add the virtualization server to InfoScale Operations Manager using VMware vCenter by navigating to Settings > Virtualization.
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Add the virtual machines separately to InfoScale Operations Manager as managed hosts.Note: If you add the virtual machines to InfoScale Operations Manager as managed hosts before you add the VMware ESX virtualization server, it can take up to 24 hours for InfoScale Operations Manager to calculate the SPVUs. Similarly, if you add only the virtual machines to InfoScale Operations Manager, and do not add the virtualization server, InfoScale Operations Manager cannot calculate the SPVUs for the products that are installed on the virtualization server. However, InfoScale Operations Manager discovers all the licenses for the products in this scenario.
When the SPVU is calculated for the products that run on the virtual machine of a VMware ESX server, the total number of cores on the server is compared with the total number of Virtual CPUs (vCPUs) that are allocated to the virtual machines that have the same guest operating system and the same product. The smaller number among these two is the total number of cores that need to be licensed (core-to-license) for the server. The SPVU is calculated by multiplying this number with the SPVU value per core.
For example, consider a VMware ESX Server that has 3 virtual machines and a total number of 8 cores. Two of the virtual machines use 6 vCPUs each and run Storage Foundation for Windows. The total number of the vCPUs on the virtual machine is calculated by adding 6 to 6, which is 12. To calculate the core-to-license for the server, 12 is compared with 8 (the number of cores on the physical VMware ESX Server). Because 8 is the smaller number, the core to license for the products on this VMware ESX server is 8. To find the required SPVU for the products on this virtual machine, 8 is multiplied with the actual SPVU value per core.
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