HPE Morpheus Enterprise is a comprehensive multi-cloud management and orchestration platform that enables self-service provisioning and lifecycle management across private and public clouds. To accurately size and quote a Morpheus solution in tools like HPE Online Config Advanced (OCA), the primary licensing metric is the Workload Element (WLE), also frequently referred to as a Workload Element (WE) in some documentation.

A Workload Element is defined as a granular unit of compute directly associated with an application service that is being managed or inventoried by Morpheus. This includes:

Virtual Machines (VMs) on-premises (e.g., VMware vCenter, Hyper-V).

Instances in the public cloud (e.g., AWS EC2, Azure VMs, Google Cloud instances).

Bare metal servers if they are provisioned to run application services.

Container deployments (such as Kubernetes pods).

Importantly, Morpheus does not count supporting infrastructure like storage arrays, load balancers, or physical hypervisor hosts (e.g., the physical server running ESXi) as Workload Elements. Licensing is typically based on a concurrent model, meaning the customer must license the total number of WLEs under management at any given time, regardless of whether they are located on-prem or in a public cloud. Therefore, the partner must calculate the aggregate sum of all VMs and cloud instances the customer intends to manage to ensure the license quantity in OCA is correct.