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How to offer multiple VM licenses to one customer

Question

We need a module that will allow us to provide XY number of VM Based licenses valid for the specified time (1y, 3y, 5y, or some specific date in future) to one single customer.

Answer

Option 1: Subscription + Node-Locked

You can add 2 modules to your product:

  • Subscription: with the configured packages for 1, 3, 5 years
  • Node-Locked: configured to be used with 50 nodes. The VMs will be identified by the UUID and paired with the issues Node-Locked license max. 50 times.

Option 2: Subscription + Quota

You can add 2 modules to your product:

  • Subscription: with the configured packages for 1, 3, 5 years
  • Quota: volume = 50 In this scenario, you’d need to compare available quota (e.g. 50) with the number of started VMs.