Feature Partitions
Important:You can use either reservations or partitions. Reservations and partitions cannot coexist alongside each other. If currently no license reservations are defined for your license server, Revenera strongly recommends to use the partitions functionality to allocate licenses. The license reservations feature may be deprecated in a future release. For more information, see Partitions vs. Reservations.
The partitions functionality available with the FlexNet Embedded license server enables you to allocate licenses to a group of client devices or users to help ensure that these entities have access to the features they need.
A partition can be viewed as a group of licenses. Each license server has a default partition which contains the pool of licenses available to its client devices. The license server distributes licenses from this license pool on a first-come-first-served basis to client devices requesting them.
However, you can define additional partitions (also called named partitions) and divide your license estate between all partitions (that is, named partitions and the default partition). Each partition contains license counts for one or more features, which can be allocated to client devices or users. It is important to note that in a partition, licenses are not assigned to individual client devices or users. Instead, counts allocated to a partition can be accessed by a number of devices or users that meet certain criteria, such as, for example, be member of a particular business unit or have a certain hostid. Allocated license counts can be checked out by any device or user that fulfills the specified criteria.
As the license server administrator, you can choose to allocate the entire pool of licenses, a portion of the licenses, or none of the licenses. Any license that is not allocated remains in the default partition and is available to any device on a first-come-first-served basis.
The following sections provide information about partitions on the FlexNet Embedded license server:
| • | Defining Partitions Using a Model Definition |
| • | Model Definition Components |
| • | Server Behavior When Distributing Feature Counts to Partitions |
| • | Server Behavior when Assigning Features to Clients |
| • | Partitions vs. Reservations |
| • | Limitations of Partitions |