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Splitting a single 4 core licenses.

ErikBlake — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:06:24 GMT

Hello everybody. So we are currently at 10 and looking to Migrate to 10.1. We have a single Server license for four cores. How do we split that license between 2 cores on two different machines. We understand that performance may be hindered while we do this but this will allow us to migrate at a more controlled pace. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Erik

Re: Splitting a single 4 core licenses.

nicogis — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:31:42 GMT

Erik, ask your partner Esri for details of licensing arcgis server.

Re: Splitting a single 4 core licenses.

JinZhang — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:54:14 GMT

We've done that recently in our test environment. You don't "split" the 4 core license, you just authorize the same license number to both of the servers that have Arcgis Server for 10.1 installed.

Regards,

Re: Splitting a single 4 core licenses.

MichaelVolz — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:11:51 GMT

That's not a violation of your license agreement as you are now using 8 cores?

Re: Splitting a single 4 core licenses.

JinZhang — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:22:38 GMT

no, using a single 4 core license for two 2-core servers is not a violation of the license agreement.

Re: Splitting a single 4 core licenses.

MichaelVolz — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:09:22 GMT

My bad, I misunderstood the scenario.

Re: Splitting a single 4 core licenses.

ErikBlake — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:37:31 GMT

Thank you Jin. I appreciate the response and your help.
Erik

Re: Splitting a single 4 core licenses.

RamlaShihab — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:30:02 GMT

you can also configure your server for active passive mode where you can install arcgis on two machines

Re: Splitting a single 4 core licenses.

ErikBlake — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:31:03 GMT

Thanks to you Ramla Shihab as well for your help. Is there any documentation out there that will show me how to configure my server for active passive mode....

Re: Splitting a single 4 core licenses.

ErikBlake — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:38:20 GMT

Jin. When I authorize my licenses for both servers does it automatically split the licenses in to two cores for each server or do I have to specify this in the installation process.

Because right now we have a server running server 10. We just got a new server started which will have our 10.1 licenses installed on it. We want to do want you guys did as having the new server be our test environment. So that we can still have 10 running for our employees while we do the migration to 10.1. Any documentation that you could point me to or any advice that you could lend would be great. Thanks again
Erik

Re: Splitting a single 4 core licenses.

RichardWatson — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:42:13 GMT

My understanding is that ArcGIS Server is licensed based on the number of cores. I have seen white papers describing this but can't find them at the moment.

There are 2 aspects to this. The first is what is legal and the second is what actually occurs. I believe that if you install ArcGIS Server on a machine with X cores then it will use X cores regardless of what you actually licensed. In other words, it is up to you to make sure that you are in compliance with the terms and conditions for using the software.

I believe that if the machine has X cores then you are supposed to license X cores. It starts with 4 and then you can add multiples of 2 (or something like that).

At one point, ESRI discussed adding checks for core compliance in the software but I do not believe that they have done that.