VM Properties Tab

IT Asset Management (Cloud)
IT Asset Management displays the VM properties tab on the inventory device properties page when you select Virtual Machine as Inventory device type.
Restriction: This tab is not available for inventory device records created to represent Oracle Database running in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), even though the General tab shows the Inventory device type as Virtual Machine.
This page provides details of a virtual machine (this tab is not available for multi-edit of more than one device at a time).
The license consumption calculation for some processor-based licenses like Oracle Processor, IBM VPC or IBM PVU depends on the hardware-specific details like Threads (max) or Threads per core (that is, a device that is missing these important values cannot consume from such a license, and is excluded from the license consumption calculations).
Tip: The virtual machine properties are updated each time you import inventory data from the virtual environment. If you create a virtual machine record manually, subsequent inventory updates may overwrite your initial data.

The following inventory device properties (listed alphabetically) are available on this tab.

Table 1. VM Properties tab details
Field Description
Core affinity

The processor core, or range of processor cores, on the host server to which this virtual machine is bound. Core affinity enables you bind a virtual machine to one or more cores in the physical machine that is hosting the virtual machine.

Enter the core or range of cores to which this virtual machine is bound.
CPU affinity

The CPU or a range of CPUs to which this virtual machine is bound. CPU affinity enables you bind a virtual machine to one or more CPUs in the physical machine, hosting the virtual machine.

Enter the number or range of CPUs to which this virtual machine is bound.
CPU usage (MHz)

Specifies the volume of CPU processing power used by this virtual machine, in MHz.

Enter the volume of CPU processing power by this virtual machine, in MHz.
Friendly name

The friendly name of the virtual machine, as displayed in the user interface of the VM management software (such as ESX), and returned in inventory.

If you are manually creating an inventory device record for a virtual machine, enter the friendly name of the inventory device.
Guest full name

The complete title of the guest operating system running on the virtual machine.

If you are manually creating an inventory device record for a virtual machine, enter the full name of the guest operating system running on the virtual machine.
Host
Specifies the name of the host on which this virtual machine is located.
Note: For virtual machines hosted on-premises, the host name must be supplied to allow for sub-capacity license consumption calculations. If this field is blank:
  • Oracle Database processor licenses on Solaris zones do not include any consumption for this device
  • Windows Server 2016 (Microsoft Server/Management Core) licenses also exclude consumption for this device
  • All other licenses calculate full capacity (that is, treat the available data as if it were coming from a stand-alone device).
Tip: Applies only to virtual machines that are hosted on-premises (somewhere within your enterprise). When a virtual machine is hosted in the cloud (as shown on the General Tab of its properties), no host name is required. However, because the host name is blank, consumption for this virtual machine is calculated as in the note above. (Alternatively, provided that you have access to the correct values for cores and processor counts that may be required for a sub-capacity calculation, you may:
  1. Create a fake VM host inventory device and save that record
  2. Search for that device in this Host field, so that this virtual machine is no longer missing a host name.)
Keep in mind that, if ever inventory returns a known host for this virtual machine, your value is overwritten with the data from inventory.

Enter part of the name of the host server, and either press Enter or click the Search button. A list of possible host servers is presented. Select one from the list, and click Add VM host. For more details, see To Use a Fly-Down.
Host affinity enabled

Indicates whether host affinity is enabled for this virtual machine. Host affinity enables you bind a virtual machine to the current virtual host.

Select this check box to bind this virtual machine to its current host.
Last known state

Specifies the last reported status of this virtual machine.

Select any of the following options from the Last known state drop-down list.
  • Started — The virtual machine is currently running.
  • Stopped — The virtual machine has been stopped, releasing all its resources to the host.
  • Suspended — The virtual machine has been put to sleep mode. All the running processes still consume resources and the machine state is saved in a local file.
  • Unknown — The state is unknown.
Location

For HyperV and VMware, this is the path to the image from which this virtual machine was instantiated (in the VMware case, its storage location within the Virtual Machine File System [VMFS] for vSphere). For other types of virtual machine, including virtualization from IBM and Oracle, the field is correctly blank, since this information is not returned in inventory from virtual machines of those types.
Memory usage (GB)

Enter the volume of RAM used by this virtual machine, in gigabytes.
Partition ID

Populated only for appropriate virtualization technologies (and otherwise blank), this is the unique identifier for the partition returned in inventory by the virtual host.

When you are manually creating a record for the inventory device properties, you may enter an appropriate value. This may be overwritten by future imported inventory.
Partition number

Populated only for appropriate virtualization technologies (and otherwise blank), this is the partition number returned in inventory from the partitioned virtual host.

When you are manually creating a record for the inventory device properties, enter or spin up the appropriate value. This may be overwritten by future imported inventory.
Pool

The name given to the pool of resources to which this virtual machine belongs.

Populated and (by default) updated by inventory imports.

Only visible (in the Pool properties section of the VM properties tab for virtual machines) when a Pool name exists.
Processor set

The name of the processor set the virtual machine is assigned to.

Not editable.

This field is only visible when a Pool name exists.
Resource management method
If the resource pool is associated to a Solaris zone, the Resource management method field appears on the VM properties tab and displays one of the following methods of distribution between resource providers and resource consumers:
  • capped-cpu
  • resource-pool
  • dedicated-cpu

Populated and (by default) updated by inventory imports, this field it not editable.

This field is only visible when a Pool name exists and the pool is associated to a Solaris zone.
Threads

Displays the number of threads (or logical processors) assigned to this virtual machine.

Not editable.

Note: This field is only visible when a Pool name exists. For the total number of threads available in the pool, see Threads (max) in the Pool properties section (below).
Threads (max) in the Virtual machine properties section
For both global and non-global zones, displays the maximum number of threads (or logical processors) that this virtual machine (zone) may access. Available for both the Solaris global zone and non-global zones, and is collected by the FlexNet inventory agent from release 2017 R1 (12.2.0). Not currently applicable to other forms of virtualization.
Note: For a Solaris zone, this value must be greater than zero if the VM is to consume from an Oracle Processor license. For IBM PVU licenses, if this value is missing, the calculation uses the value of Threads from the Hardware tab instead. Other license types may substitute the counts of Cores or Processors as required.

Not editable.
Threads (max) in the Pool properties section

Displays the maximum number of requests to the thread pool (which are a collection of worker threads that can efficiently execute asynchronous callbacks on behalf of the application) that can be active concurrently. All requests above that number remain queued until pool threads become available.

Not editable.

This field is only visible when a Pool name exists.
Threads per core

Displays the total number of threads or logical processors, per processor core.

Not editable.

This field is only visible when a Pool name exists.
Total memory (GB)

The size of Random Access Memory (RAM) available to the virtual machine, in gigabytes.

When you are manually creating an inventory device record, enter the size of RAM available to this virtual machine, in gigabytes.
UUID

The unique identification number of the computer. This value is generated by IT Asset Management and you cannot change it.

Not editable.
VM type

Specifies the type of the virtual machine. The inventory process overwrites the value of this field.

Select any of the following options from the VM type drop-down list, and Save the VM type.
  • AWS EC2 — This type is set automatically when this virtual machine record is created/updated from an AWS instance found in inventory imported through an inventory beacon connecting to Amazon Web Services. For further details, see the Cloud hosting tab.
  • Hyper-V
  • IBM zKVM — An open source hypervisor supported in zSystem environments that runs VMs.
  • IBM zVM — An IBM hypervisor that runs VMs on the operating system.
  • Linux KVM
  • LPAR
  • nPar
  • Oracle VM
  • SRP
  • Unknown
  • VMware
  • vPar
  • WPAR
  • Zone.
Worker node The name of the worker node that the virtual machine belongs to. Clicking the hyperlinked worker node name will redirect the user to the Inventory Device Properties page for that worker node (a worker node itself is a computer or virtual machine that runs containerized applications).

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