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4 To change from a perpetual license to a subscription license for a Horizon 7 pod, click Use
Subscription License and click OK. The VMware Horizon Cloud Service administrator can then
enable the Horizon 7 pod for a subscription license.
The Licensing panel shows the updated licensing information.
5 Verify the license expiration date.
6 Verify that the Desktop, Application Remoting, and View Composer licenses are enabled or
disabled, based on the edition of VMware Horizon 7 that your product license entitles you to
use.
Not all features and capabilities of VMware Horizon 7 are available in all editions. For a
comparison of feature sets in each edition, see http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/
horizon-view/VMware-Horizon-View-Pricing-Licensing-FAQ.pdf.
7 Verify that the licensing usage model matches the model that is used in your product license.
Usage is counted by the number of named users or concurrent users, depending on the
edition and usage agreement for your product license.
Monitoring Product License Usage
In Horizon 7 Administrator, you can monitor the active users who are concurrently connected to
Horizon. The Product Licensing and Usage page displays the current and highest historical usage
numbers. You can use these numbers to keep track of your product license usage. You can also
reset the historical usage data and start over with the current data.
Horizon provides two licensing usage models, one for named users and one for concurrent users.
Horizon counts the named users and concurrent users in your environment, regardless of your
product license edition or usage model agreement.
For named users, Horizon counts the number of unique users that have accessed the Horizon
environment. If a named user runs multiple single-user desktops, published desktops, and
published applications, the user is counted once.
For named users, the Current column on the Product Licensing and Usage page displays the
number of users since your Horizon deployment was first configured or since you last reset the
Named Users Count. The Highest column is not applicable to named users.
For concurrent users, Horizon counts single-user desktop connections per session. If a concurrent
user runs multiple single-user desktops, each connected desktop session is counted separately.
For concurrent users, published desktop and application connections are counted per user. If a
concurrent user runs multiple published desktop sessions and applications, the user is counted
only once, even if different published desktops or applications are hosted on different RDS
hosts. If a concurrent user runs a single-user desktop and additional published desktops and
applications, the user is counted only once.
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