Administrator Guide
Licensing Considerations
Persistent VDI
Client Access Licenses are associated with Virtual Machines in a VDI clone pool. VDI clone pools are often created, torn down, and rebuilt,
which causes artiîš‚cially high usage of Client Access Licenses. Returning the Client Access Licenses to the license pool helps to alleviate
this issue.
Currently, the process to return Client Access Licenses is based on removal of the device. SQL statements, run manually in the SQL
Management Studio, can mark the devices as removed, which returns the Client Access Licenses to the license pool.
NOTE: Contact Dell ProSupport to obtain the SQL statements and the procedure for returning Client Access Licenses to the
license pool.
Non-Persistent VDI
Client Access Licenses that are allocated to Non-Persistent VDI clients are returned for reuse after the VDI client device lease expires. The
default device lease expiration interval is 480 minutes.
Check for returned licenses
License expiration is logged in the Security Server. To check for licenses returned for reuse, open output.log from the appropriate path:
Dell Enterprise Server: Program Files\Dell\Enterprise Edition\Security Server\logs
VE:/opt/dell/server/security-server/logs
Sample log entries:
2017-01-09 08:17:40,500 INFO com.dell.scheduled.jobs.NonPersistentVdiLicenceExpirationJob
[jobsScheduler-2] - Running NonPersistentVdiLicenceExpirationJob
2017-01-09 08:17:40,593 INFO com.dell.scheduled.jobs.NonPersistentVdiLicenceExpirationJob
[jobsScheduler-2] - Expired 0 non persistent VDI device(s)
2017-01-09 08:17:40,593 INFO com.dell.scheduled.jobs.NonPersistentVdiLicenceExpirationJob
[jobsScheduler-2] - NonPersistentVdiLicenseExpirationJob finished
2017-01-09 08:19:40,606 INFO com.dell.scheduled.jobs.NonPersistentVdiLicenceExpirationJob
[jobsScheduler-9] - Running NonPersistentVdiLicenceExpirationJob
2017-01-09 08:19:40,606 INFO com.dell.scheduled.jobs.NonPersistentVdiLicenceExpirationJob
[jobsScheduler-9] - Expired 1 non persistent VDI device(s)
2017-01-09 08:19:40,606 INFO com.dell.scheduled.jobs.NonPersistentVdiLicenceExpirationJob
[jobsScheduler-9] - NonPersistentVdiLicenseExpirationJob finished
2017-01-09 08:21:40,617 INFO com.dell.scheduled.jobs.NonPersistentVdiLicenceExpirationJob
[jobsScheduler-15] - Running NonPersistentVdiLicenceExpirationJob
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Licensing Considerations