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Retroactively analyzing more than 90 days of VM and sole-tenant node usage

When we run License Tracker for the first time, the tool analyzes the last 90 days of audit logs to determine how many VMs and physical servers we’ve been using. Going back 90 days in history is useful, but can we go back further? Continue »

Tracking VM and sole-tenant node usage for license reporting

When we bring our own Windows licenses to Google Cloud, we must keep track of the number of physical servers that we’re using those licenses on. By using sole-tenant nodes, we can control which nodes our VMs run on, but nodes aren’t the same as physical servers. Continue »