Citrix Licensing Consumption

[Konstantinos Efthymiadi]

Hello support, we want to implement a new citrix infrastructure and at the same time upgrade citrix components to the latest versions. My question is: Do we have to increasing licensing if its only affect our infrastructure or licensing is consumed for every individual server install of citrix component?

[Jeff Riechers]

Licenses are tied to the username checking them out.  So if a user logs into the 2 different farms with the same username and they use the same license server it only counts as 1 license used.

[Konstantinos Efthymiadi]

16 hours ago, Jeff Riechers1709152667 said:

Licenses are tied to the username checking them out.  So if a user logs into the 2 different farms with the same username and they use the same license server it only counts as 1 license used.

Thanks Jeff. 

In terms of server licensing, I assume will count as 2 since there are 2 individual servers, right?

[Jeff Riechers]

Nope, Citrix doesn't care if you run the software on 1 server, or 1000 servers.  Licenses are all checked out based on username.

[Ken Z]

Konstantinos

 

There are two types of Citrix user licenses available... concurrent and user/device

 

With concurrent licenses, this is the number of unique users logged into the Citrix Farm, irrespective of how many sessions they are running across the different servers in the farm. As soon as the user logs off the last server in the farm, their license is returned for someone else to use. Concurrent licenses are significantly more expensive than the corresponding user/device licenses.

 

With user/device licensing, the first time a user logs in, they are assigned a license, and that license will stay with them even when they log off. If they them don't log back in within 90 days, then the license is returned to the Citrix license server for allocation to another account. Similar to the way RDSCALs work.

 

There are pros and cons for each type of license

 

Here's a screenshot of my test lab that has both concurrent and user/device licenses available (but I selected concurrent)

 

 

Other than that, what Jeff said...

 

Regards

 

Ken Z