CitectSCADA Virtualized Environment

Hi Richard,

Implementing the licenses is a thing you should plan well. You can use hardware dongles or softkeys, but both solutions have some caveats in a virtual environment.

It is not advised to plug a hardware USB dongle directly into a VM server, because it will not be available for a VM anymore after a hardware redundancy failover or planned shutdown of the primary hardware (the VM then continues to run on a different physical machine). Most people mitigate this issue by using network USB hubs, like USBAnywhere.

Softkeys can be installed in virtual machines, but you have to be careful not to corrupt them. Some IT scenarios can break the license, like restoring a VM from a back-up or snapshot, copying or moving the VM, changing network configuration (MAC address), etc.

Best regards,
Patrick

Hi Richard,

Implementing the licenses is a thing you should plan well. You can use hardware dongles or softkeys, but both solutions have some caveats in a virtual environment.

It is not advised to plug a hardware USB dongle directly into a VM server, because it will not be available for a VM anymore after a hardware redundancy failover or planned shutdown of the primary hardware (the VM then continues to run on a different physical machine). Most people mitigate this issue by using network USB hubs, like USBAnywhere.

Softkeys can be installed in virtual machines, but you have to be careful not to corrupt them. Some IT scenarios can break the license, like restoring a VM from a back-up or snapshot, copying or moving the VM, changing network configuration (MAC address), etc.

Best regards,
Patrick