![]() ![]() ![]() Note that I said separate from XenDesktop because when you buy XenDesktop Enterprise or Platinum licenses this will include XenApp as well. ![]() These can be purchased as perpetual as well and do also not include SA / SM. XenApp licenses, when purchased separate from XenDesktop are a bit different in that they are only available as concurrent licenses. This does not include Subscription Advantage (SA) or Software Maintenance (SM), but we’ll get to those in just a bit. These are available as perpetual, which basically means you buy them once and then pay an annual fee on a per license basis. To start, the XenDesktop license model offers user/device as well as concurrent licenses. If you require both, you must configure a separate license server to handle those licenses. You either purchase / upload user/device or concurrent, they cannot be mixed. Microsoft licenses will be discussed in more detail as we progress.įMA fact: By default you can only use one type of license within your XenDesktop Site. Again, you either buy user/device licenses, or concurrent. Don’t worry I’ll elaborate a bit more on this in a minute. Here it is important to note that the user/device license type is not about choosing between a user or device license, no, the license server will decide that for you. Concurrent licenses live somewhere in between they are not tied to a specific user or machine. A user license allows a single user access from an unlimited number of devices, while a device license allows an unlimited number of users access from a single device. User, device and concurrentĬitrix licenses come in various forms and shapes, for example licenses can be user/device based or concurrent. Or, and this is not an uncommon approach, the Citrix license server role can be shared with other license servers, like Microsoft licensing for example. Since the license server role is a relatively light one you may choose to co-host it on a machine, which performs other tasks as well. Product-side settings in your Citrix products that are associated with the License Server.Īt least one license server needs to be present within a Citrix environment.Simple License Service – Enables allocation and installation of license files on a License Server using a web page interface.Web Services for Licensing – Enables Studio, Director, and the Licensing Administration PowerShell Snap-in to communicate with the License Server and manage users, allocate and install licenses, display License Server health, license usage, and other alert messages.License Administration Console – The interface you use to manage your license files and your License Server.These files are stored on the License Server. License files – The files that you need to license your product.License server – A system that allows licenses to be shared across the network.Citrix licensing technical overviewīefore you will be able to upload any type of license you will first have to install and configure Citrix licensing, Citrix licensing consists out of the following components: It supports the full software-licensing spectrum, from strict enforcement to usage-based trust but verifies, and enables software protection, monetization and compliance of on-premises, SaaS, cloud, virtualized and embedded applications. Here is a quote from their website:įlexNet Licensing empowers application producers to combat software piracy and increase revenues by easily enabling new pricing, packaging and software licensing and activation models. FlexnetĬitrix relies on Flexera software to take care of licensing, FlexNet licensing software to be a bit more specific (also formerly known under the names FlexNet Publisher and FLEXlm). What did I miss, explained wrong / incomplete etc.? Please let me know.Īnd finally, as you might be unfamiliar with some of the licensing facts involved, this chapter will potentially provide you with some useful information, insights and nice to knows. Secondly, since licensing can be complex I would like to ask you for some help by not only giving this ‘chapter’ a read through but also to do some technical ‘fact checking’ at the same time helping me to improve the overall quality of Inside Citrix. First of all I want to sort of give you a sneak peak into my upcoming book: Inside Citrix – The FlexCast Management Architecture. The reason for this blogpost is threefold. Throughout this chapter I will focus on the different types of Citrix licenses available, how they get applied from a XenApp / XenDesktop perspective and what other types of (Microsoft) licenses we need to take into consideration, like RDS, VDA (and no, this is not the Citrix VDA), CDL etc. Licensing can be complicated, not only do we need to consider XenApp and/or XenDesktop licenses we also have to deal with Microsoft licensing, if we like or not. ![]()
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