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- USB dongles are 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 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 access to the public Internet. This is not suitable for many customers who require a private cloud network environment following complying with their own security and management policies.
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