ServiceNow SAM Pro provides optimization opportunities to make the best available use of your available licenses. To understand this better you can review this video here:

Video: Cluster License Optimization on SAM Pro

However, there might be cases when you would want to assign licenses based on your organization requirements. Here you can use Allocations.

Allocations is a way for SAM Pro customers to prioritize license assignment for specific hosts, virtual machines, users, devices etc. as per the organization’s licensing strategy. It is a way to “override” ServiceNow SAM Pro’s own license assignment. More on the difference between License Optimization and Allocation here.

There are many use cases of allocation management covered here. In this blog we touch upon one more use case as follows: How to allocate License to the Host or the Virtual machine in a Hypervisor cluster?