Software license reconciliation within a cloud computing infrastructure

A system for managing software program installations in a cloud computing environment, comprising:

• a software license rule from a software license agreement;
• a set of software program instances, each software program instance being an installation of the software program on a different logical partition;
• a set of servers configured as a computing cloud, at least two of the servers from the set of servers in the cloud requiring a different maximum number of software licenses according to the software license rule;
• and
• a computer processing device configured to:
• calculate according to the software license rule a maximum number of software licenses required to run the set of software program instances on the set of servers;
• find a total number of servers in the set of servers configured as a computing cloud;
• find a total number of software program instances in the set of software program instances;
• compare the total number of servers in the set of servers configured as a computing cloud to the total number of software program instances in the set of software program instances;
• calculate for each server from the set of servers configured as a computing cloud a total number of software licenses required according to a software license rule in a software license agreement to run on the server a software program instance from the set of software program instances;
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• rank the servers in the set of servers configured as a computing cloud according to each of the corresponding total number of software licenses required to run on the server a software program instance from the set of software program instances.

A computer program product embodied in non-transitory computer readable memory for managing software program installations in a cloud computing environment, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable non-transitory storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code configured to:
• calculate, by a computer processor, the maximum number of software licenses required according to a software license rule in a software license agreement to run a set of software program instances on a set of servers configured as a computing cloud, each software program instance being an installation of the software program on a different logical partition and at least two of the servers from the set of servers requiring a different maximum number of software licenses according to the software license rule;
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• determine if the maximum number of software licenses exceeds an allowed number of software licenses granted in the software license agreement;
• find a total number of servers in the set of servers configured as a computing cloud;
• find a total number of software program instances in the set of software program instances;
• compare the total number of servers in the set of servers configured as a computing cloud to the total number of software program instances in the set of software program instances;
• calculate for each server from the set of servers configured as a computing cloud a total number of software licenses required according to a software license rule in a software license agreement to run on the server a software program instance from the set of software program instances;
• and
• rank the servers in the set of servers configured as a computing cloud according to each of the corresponding total number of software licenses required to run on the server a software program instance from the set of software program instances.