Purchase software commitments for OS licenses

Console

Before you purchase a commitment using the Google Cloud console, select the project where you want to use the resources and apply your CUDs. If you enabled CUD sharing for your project's Cloud Billing account, then you can purchase the commitment for any project from that Cloud Billing account.

After you select the project, perform the following steps:

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Committed use discountspage.

   Go to Committed use discounts

   The Commitment listpage appears and displays the Hardware commitmentstab.

2. Click Software license commitments.

3. Click Purchase commitment.

   The Purchase a committed use discountpage appears.

4. In the Namefield, enter a name for your commitment.

5. In the Regionfield, select the region where you want to use resources at committed-use-discounted prices.

6. For Duration, select either 1 yearor 3 yearsas the plan for your commitment. The plan determines the CUD rate and preset term duration of your commitment.

7. In the License familyfield, select the OS license for which you want to purchase the commitment.

8. In the License type and quantitysection, do the following:

   1. For Type, select the number of vCPUs that applies.
   2. For Number of licenses, enter the number of OS licenses that you want to commit to purchasing.

9. In the Summarypane, review your commitment timeline and details.

10. To purchase your commitment, do the following:

    1. Click Purchase. The Purchase a committed use discountdialog appears.

    2. In the dialog, review the acceptance disclosures regarding monthly fees, commitment terms, and the service specific terms .

    3. To confirm your commitment purchase, click Purchase.

gcloud

Using the gcloud CLI, run the gcloud compute commitments create-license command to purchase a license commitment.

gcloud compute commitments create-license COMMITMENT_NAME 
\
    --license ` LICENSE_URI 
`
    --amount NUMBER_OF_LICENSES 
\
    --cores-per-license CORES_PER_LICENSE 
\
    --plan PLAN 
\
    --region REGION 
\

Replace the following:

• COMMITMENT_NAME : the name for your commitment.
• LICENSE_URI : the license URI. For example: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/myproject/global/licenses/sles-sap-12
• NUMBER_OF_LICENSES : the number of licenses you plan to purchase.
• CORES_PER_LICENSE : the number of cores per license. Enter 1-2 , 3-4 , or 5+ .
• PLAN : enter the plan length: 12-month or 36-month .
• REGION : the region where this commitment applies.

For example, to purchase a 3-year commitment for 4 SAP licenses with 3-4 cores per license in the us-central1 region, run the following command:

gcloud compute commitments create-license commitment-1
    --license https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/myproject/global/licenses/sles-12
    --amount=4
    --cores-per-license=3-4
    --plan=36-month
    --region=us-central1

For example, to purchase a 1-year commitment for 2 SLES for SAP licenses with 1-2 cores per license in the us-central1 region, run the following command:

gcloud compute commitments create-license commitment-2
    --license https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/myproject/global/licenses/sles-sap-12
    --amount=2
    --cores-per-license=1-2
    --plan=12-month
    --region=us-central1

REST

Use the regionCommitments.insert method and include the licenseResource field to define the license commitment's properties.

POST https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/ PROJECT_ID 
/regions/ REGION 
/commitments?requestId= OPTIONAL_UNIQUE_ID 
{
    "name": " COMMITMENT_NAME 
",
    "plan": " PLAN 
",
    "category": "LICENSE",
    "licenseResource": {
      "coresPerLicense": " CORES_PER_LICENSE 
",
      "amount": " NUMBER_OF_LICENSES 
",
      "license": " LICENSE_URI 
"
    }
}

Replace the following:

• PROJECT_ID : the ID of the project where you want to purchase the commitment.
• OPTIONAL_UNIQUE_ID : Optional. A unique request ID to help prevent unintended duplicate requests.
• COMMITMENT_NAME : the name for your commitment.
• LICENSE_URI : the license URI. For example: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/myproject/global/licenses/sles-sap-12
• NUMBER_OF_LICENSES : the number of licenses you plan to purchase.
• CORES_PER_LICENSE : the number of cores per license. Enter 1-2 , 3-4 , or 5+ .
• PLAN : enter the plan length: 12-month or 36-month .
• REGION : the region where this commitment applies.

For example, to purchase a 3-year commitment for 4 SLES for SAP licenses with 3-4 cores per license in the us-central1 region, make the following POST request:

POST https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/myproject/regions/us-central1/commitments

{
    "name": "commitment-3",
    "plan": "THIRTY_SIX_MONTH",
    "category": "LICENSE",
    "licenseResource": {
      "coresPerLicense": "3-4",
      "amount": "4",
      "license": "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/suse-sap-cloud/global/licenses/sles-sap-12"
      }
}