Collecting capacity data of virtual machines by leveraging agent data

A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by at least one processor to perform operations for:

• obtaining, from an asset server, a list of one or more virtual machines for which capacity data is to be retrieved, wherein the one or more virtual machines are identified using a licensing measurement;
• obtaining infrastructure data and hypervisor data from an infrastructure server;
• for each of the one or more virtual machines, using the infrastructure data and the hypervisor data to request, from a capacity scanner on each of the one or more virtual machines, capacity data for that virtual machine;
• and
• sending, to the asset server, the capacity data for each of the one or more virtual machines, wherein the asset server performs load balancing of software that is to be executed on the one or more virtual machines using the capacity data.

A computer system, comprising:

• one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories and one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices;
• and
• program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to perform operations comprising:
• obtaining, from an asset server, a list of one or more virtual machines for which capacity data is to be retrieved, wherein the one or more virtual machines are identified using a licensing measurement;
• obtaining infrastructure data and hypervisor data from an infrastructure server;
• for each of the one or more virtual machines, using the infrastructure data and the hypervisor data to request, from a capacity scanner on each of the one or more virtual machines, capacity data for that virtual machine;
• and
• sending, to the asset server, the capacity data for each of the one or more virtual machines, wherein the asset server performs load balancing of software that is to be executed on the one or more virtual machines using the capacity data.