So, now I get to install the DSLS on the actual user machines and look forward to explaining that they need to remain powered up when someone wants a license, and obtaining a new license file any time user hardware needs to be replaced, etc.ĭassault: Please. From a license management standpoint only, Dassault behaves as a consumer product, whereas AutoDesk and Siemens, corporate. I have a data center that's now in-line with the industry practice (virtualization and no more physical servers), and Dassault does not have a license server that's compatible? I went back and forth a bit with the reseller, and all they could do is agree with me that Dassault is way behind the times forcing customers to use physical machines to serve licenses.

I'm then told that unfortunately, Dassault still does not support a virtual environment whether it's a single license server or redundant.Īwesome.

I notice that all 3 produce the same Target ID (unlike the AutoDesk and Siemens Composite ID utility which produces unique numbers even in a virtual environment), but submit to the reseller anyway

Next, I run the Dassault Target ID utility on the 3 64-bit virtual servers I plan to migrate licensing functions to.fine, I was planing to migrate my license server functions to one of the Win 2012 64-bit virtual machines anyway, I guess now is the time. When I asked for the 32-bit version, I was then informed that the Dassault License Server will not run in a 32-bit environment like AutoDesk and Siemens. First issue was that the Target ID utility would not run on a 32-bit OS.

So, now adding a Catia seat should be a no-brainer as well right? Well. Once we did, no issues on the virtual environment. The only thing we had to do to keep the license servers running was get the new Composite ID's, etc to AutoDesk and Siemens and obtain new license files. Although the Win 2003 boxes were virtualized to start, we have also installed Win 2012 servers so we can start migrating services, etc. Last year, we finally caught up to the industry and virtualized them on VMWare with 2 ESX hosts hosting many Windows servers. Up until a year ago, all of the servers in our data center were Win 2003 physical (one physical box per server). Our licenses are floating seats and we serve them out via 3 license servers in a redundant configuration.

We have users here using both AutoDesk and Siemens products. In reference to the previous post, we just purchased a Catia seat from our reseller. Thread560-360863: License server in a virtualized environment

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