Edge Licensing

Only Operators can enable the Edge Licensing and assign the licenses to a Partner user. If the Edge Licensing is not enabled for you, contact your Operator.

The Edge Licensing feature is activated by default.

To deactivate Edge Licensing, in the Operator portal, go to Orchestrator > System Properties, and set the value of the system property session.options.enableEdgeLicensing to False.

The Edge Licenses are available with the following components:

Component	Supported Attributes
Bandwidth	10M, 30M, 50M, 100M, 200M, 350M, 500M, 750M, 1G, 2G, 5G, 10G
Editions	Standard, Enterprise, Premium
Region	North America, Europe Middle East and Africa, Latin America, Asia Pacific
Term	12 months, 36 months, 60 months

An Operator can assign different types of Edge licenses from the 324 types of licenses available with various combinations.

Apart from the above list, VMware offers a trial version of license with the following attributes:

Component	Supported Attributes
Bandwidth	10 Gbps
Edition	POC
Region	North America, Europe Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America
Term	60 Months

Note: You can assign the POC license to a customer as a trial. When required, you can upgrade the license to any required Edition.

To access the Edge Licensing feature:

Procedure

1. In the Operator portal, click Services, and then from the left menu, click Edge Licensing.
   Note: Starting from the 5.4.0 release, Edge Image Management is renamed to Services.

   

2. You can view the following options on this page:

   Option	Description
   Search	Enter a term to search for a matching text across the table. You can click the advanced search option to use filters to narrow down the search results.
   Download Report	Click this option to download a report of the licenses, associated customers, and Edges in a CSV format.
   Columns	Click this option and select the columns to be displayed in the table.
   Refresh	Click this option to refresh the displayed list of licenses.

3. Clicking the View link under the Partners assigned column, displays the Edge license details of the selected Partner.
4. Clicking the View link under the Customers assigned column, displays the Edge license details of the selected Customer.

What to do next

To assign Edge Licenses to new Partners, see Create New Partner.

To manage and assign Edge Licenses to existing Partners, see Manage Edge Licenses for Partners.

To assign Edge Licenses to new Customers, see Create New Customer.

To manage and assign Edge Licenses to existing Customers, see Manage Edge Licenses for Customers.