An ACE Administrator, Jane, has a licensed copy of Workstation 6 with the ACE Option Pack (WSAE) installed on her PC. She creates an ACE virtual machine using the ACE features including Policies, Package Settings, and New Package menu items. The result is an installable ACE virtual machine.
Scenario #1: Jane creates an ACE virtual machine for herself.
Jane installs that ACE virtual machine on the same PC on which she created the virtual machine. That PC is already licensed for Workstation 6 with the ACE Option Pack. She does not require an additional license to install and test this ACE virtual machine on her device. Any device licensed for Workstation 6 with the ACE Option Pack can install and run an ACE virtual machine on that device.
Jane then deploys the same ACE virtual machine to a USB flash drive. Each device on which an ACE virtual machine has been installed requires its own license. Because this USB flash drive does not itself have a license for Workstation 6 with the ACE Option Pack, Jane must secure a valid ACE Client License for that portable media device.
Scenario #2: Jane creates Pocket ACE virtual machines to distribute to 50 users.
Jane intends to deploy an ACE virtual machine to 50 users who are working from home. She intends to pre-install the ACE virtual machine on 50 USB flash drives, and then distribute them to each of the 50 users.
Jane must secure 50 total ACE Client Licenses. An ACE Client License is required for each device on which an ACE virtual machine is installed. The definition of device includes portable media devices such as portable hard drives or USB flash drives.
Some of the 50 users intend to plug the provided USB flash drives into two diffent hosts—a work PC and a home PC. This does not require any additional ACE licensing beyond the 50 ACE Client Licenses that Jane secured. The licensed device, in this example, is the portable media drive. Because it is licensed itself, the ACE virtual machine installed on the USB flash drive can be run from any host machine, regardless of whether the host machine has its own ACE Client License.
Scenario #3: Jane delivers ACE virtual machines to contract employees.
Jane intends to deploy an ACE virtual machine to 200 PCs used by third-party contractors. The contractors own and manage their PCs, and Jane has no direct control over these machines. Jane intends to place an ACE Package on an external site and ask all 200 contractors to download the ACE Package and run the installation program.
Jane must secure 200 total ACE Client Licenses. An ACE Client License is required for each device on which an ACE virtual machine is installed. The definition of device includes any PC or laptop, including those owned by third-party organizations.
After the first month of using the ACE virtual machine, 50 of the contract employees are terminated. Jane deactivates the virtual machines on the 50 contract employee devices using the ACE Management Server. Although the files that make up the ACE virtual machine are still resident on these 50 contractor PCs, they are no longer able to run. Jane has no intention of allowing these 50 users access again and permanently reassigns the ACE licenses back into her pool of licenses available to other users. The pool of available ACE Client Licenses is not a concurrent license pool. Each license must be directly associated with a specific device, and the reassignment of these licenses is not permitted for short term or time-splitting exercises.
Keywords
licensing; licenses; license
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