Managing software licenses in a disaggregated environment

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10701141
APP PUB NO 20180007127A1
SERIAL NO

15199543

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Server resources in a data center are disaggregated into shared server resource pools. Servers are constructed dynamically, on-demand and based on a tenant's workload requirements, by allocating from these resource pools. The system also includes a license manager that operates to manage a pool of licenses that are available to be associated with resources drawn from the server resource pools. Upon provisioning of a server entity composed of resources drawn from the server resource pools, the license manager determines a license configuration suitable for the server entity. In response to receipt of information indicating a change in a composition of the server entity (e.g., as a workload is processed), the license manager determines whether an adjustment to the license configuration is required. If so, an adjusted license configuration for the server entity is determined and tracked to the tenant. The data center thus allocates appropriate licenses to server entities as required.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bivens, John Alan Ossining, US 24 408
Li, Min San Jose, US 711 7105
Mahindru, Ruchi Elmsford, US 143 1403
Ramasamy, Harigovind V Ossining, US 67 1242
Ruan, Yaoping White Plains, US 70 1106
Salapura, Valentina Chappaqua, US 570 7608
Schenfeld, Eugen South Brunswick, US 84 1086

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