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- Software licenses only.
- Developed by Stromasys.
- Installed on Charon-SSP host or separate license server.
- Require the Charon-SSP VE license server software.
- Require matching Charon-SSP emulator software.
- Currently, the VE license server is only available for cloud environments (at the time of writing: AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP, and IBM) and on supported versions of ESXi/vSphere.
- Currently At the time of writing only available for Charon-SSP products.
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- USB dongles are by nature not suitable for cloud environments and their use in VMware environments is somewhat complex.
- Sentinel software licenses are easy to install in a cloud or VMware environment. However, their ties to hardware characteristics also make it easy to inadvertently invalidate them in such environments. Hence they are also not suited for use in cloud environments and difficult to use in VMware environments. Other Sentinel software license types do not provide the same level of license security.
- Cloud-based automatic licensing does not allow a customer-specific environment in the cloud without Internet access. This is not suitable for many customers who require a private cloud network environment.
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