License Reservations
Important:It is important to note that you can use either reservations or partitions. Reservations and partitions cannot coexist alongside each other. For more information, see Partitions vs. Reservations.For general information about partitions, see Feature Partitions.
If currently no license reservations are defined for your license server, Revenera strongly recommends to use the partitions functionality to allocate licenses. Reservations are conceptually similar to partitions, but partitions offer significantly more flexibility in controlling your server’s license pool. The license reservations feature may be deprecated in a future release.
The license reservation feature available with the FlexNet Embedded license server (the local license server or a CLS instance) enables you to control the distribution of the server’s license pool within your enterprise.
With no reservations defined, the license server distributes licenses on a first-come-first-served basis to client devices requesting them. However, with the use of reservations, the server pre-allocates specific license counts to certain client devices or users to help ensure that these entities have access to the licenses they need. As the license server administrator, you can choose to pre-allocate the entire pool of licenses, a portion of the licenses, or none of the licenses. Any license not reserved remains in the shared pool of licenses and is available to any device on a first-come-first-served basis.
The following sections provide background information about reservations on the FlexNet Embedded license server: