Cloud Licensing Performance

This section describes considerations for system performance when implementing vendor-hosted cloud licensing.

>For vendor-hosted cloud license manager, Sentinel LDK cloud licensing has been proven to support 1,000 concurrent API requests per second from remote clients, with a total of at least 100,000 concurrent sessions. These values are not absolute limits and depend on network and hardware infrastructure. In most cases, a greater number of clients can be supported. For more information, see Rate Limiting for Sentinel LDK CL Service (Thales-Hosted).

Performance may be affected by server resources, network latency, and client bandwidth.

The number of clients stated above applies equally to the following:

•LAN and cloud environments (This was tested with Amazon Web Services and Alibaba Cloud.)

•Windows and Linux servers

•All license models

>The maximum number of SL keys with cloud licenses that can exist on a license server machine (Windows or Linux) is unlimited.

>Thales offers vendors the flexibility to choose between Trusted Storage and Secure Storage. While Secure Storage offers higher performance, Trusted Storage supports high availability and is easy to back up and restore. To achieve comparable performance with Trusted Storage, increasing the RAM and CPU may be necessary. Since the License Manager (LM) and the database are usually hosted on separate machines, the resources may need to be increased on both the machines. See Trusted Storage and Secure Storage.