Licensing for Virtual Environments

Virtual Machines (VMs) have changed the dimensions of computing—for both hardware and software. With the powerful business case of reduced costs behind it, virtual machines allow shared use of physical hardware into multiple 'virtual' chunks.

Sentinel RMS provides the following measures to formulate a policy of using licensed software on virtual machines:

>Virtual Machine Detection

•Policy Enforcement Through License

•API for Custom Action for VM Detection

>Fingerprinting in Single Host VM Environments

>Fingerprinting in Clustered VM Environments

You can look at the following topics for more details:

>Strategies for Licensing on VMs

>Exceptions to Virtualization Techniques