Managing software licenses in a disaggregated environment

Apparatus for managing licenses in a disaggregate compute environment, the disaggregated compute environment comprising a set of server resource pools, wherein a server resource pool comprises a set of resources of a common type, comprising:

• one or more hardware processors;
• computer memory holding computer program instructions executed by the hardware processors and operative to:
• provide a pool of licenses 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, determine a license configuration suitable for the server entity, the license configuration including at least one license drawn from the pool of licenses, wherein the at least one license drawn from the pool of licenses is marked in the pool of licenses as unavailable;
• and
• responsive to receipt of information indicating a change in a composition of the server entity, determine whether an adjustment to the license configuration is required;
• upon a determination that an adjustment to the license configuration is required, determine an adjusted license configuration for the server entity.

A computer program product in a non-transitory computer readable medium for use in a data processing system for managing licenses in a disaggregated compute environment, the disaggregated compute environment comprising a set of server resource pools, wherein a server resource pool comprises a set of resources of a common type, the computer program product holding computer program instructions executed in the data processing system and operative to:

• provide a pool of licenses 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, determine a license configuration suitable for the server entity, the license configuration including at least one license drawn from the pool of licenses, wherein the at least one license drawn from the pool of licenses is marked in the pool of licenses as unavailable;
• and
• responsive to receipt of information indicating a change in a composition of the server entity, determine whether an adjustment to the license configuration is required;
• upon a determination that an adjustment to the license configuration is required, determine an adjusted license configuration for the server entity.