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Multi-type licensing

June 16, 2022

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Multi-type licensing supports consumption of different license entitlements in a single Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) deployment. A Citrix license entitlement is a combination of Citrix product, edition, and license model. This article applies to you if you have more than one Citrix license entitlement.

You can configure and use License entitlements at two levels: the site (your deployment of Citrix DaaS product), and a delivery group.

You can use a site entitlement unless a delivery group entitlement is configured.
A delivery group entitlement overrides the site entitlement.

The following article describes which entitlement can be used at the site level and at a delivery group level.

If you have not yet configured site or delivery group entitlements, be aware of the following default behavior:

If you have more than one entitlement, one of them is randomly set as the site entitlement.
The site entitlement is used unless a delivery group entitlement is configured.

Configuring entitlements for a site or delivery group affects how license consumption is counted in the license usage displays in Citrix Cloud.

Note:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix DaaS site can be licensed for only one edition. You can use multiple Citrix DaaS on the same Citrix Cloud account with the same edition. You can’t use Premium and Advanced editions on the same Citrix Cloud account.

Although mixing of editions isn’t allowed, following are the exceptions:

DaaS Advanced and Advanced Plus only

DaaS Premium and Premium Plus only

View and update the site-level entitlement

To specify which license entitlement to use site wide, navigate to Full Configuration > Settings > Assign license and click Edit. The Assign License blade appears.

In the Assign License blade, select a license that you want the site to use. The selected license applies to all delivery groups on the site, except those sites configured with a different license.

Assign license

Possible licenses available for you to select are as follows:

Citrix DaaS Standardforazure - Per User/Device
Citrix DaaS Standardforazure – Concurrent
Citrix DaaS Standardforgcp - Per User/Device
Citrix DaaS Standardforgcp – Concurrent
Citrix DaaS Advanced – Per User/Device
Citrix DaaS Advanced – Concurrent
Citrix DaaS Advanced Plus – Per User/Device
Citrix DaaS Advanced Plus – Concurrent
Citrix DaaS Premium – Per User/Device
Citrix DaaS Premium – Concurrent
Citrix DaaS Premiumforgcp - Per User/Device
Citrix DaaS Premiumforgcp – Concurrent

When the license in use has expired and is no longer valid, you are prompted to select a valid license. If you have an expired license, contact your Citrix sales representative to renew it or to purchase new licenses.

Expired licenses that are no longer valid are labeled with Invalid. Click the X icon to remove them.

View and update a delivery group level entitlement

You can specify which license you want a delivery group to use when creating or editing a delivery group. On the License Assignment page, select an option.

Delivery group - license assignment

Options:

Use the site license. A site license applies to all delivery groups except for sites configured with a different license. The license that appears under this option is the site license in use. To configure the site license, click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the console and select License Assignment.
Use a different license. This option lets you configure this delivery group to use a license different from the site license. Remember that a license entitlement is a combination of product code, edition, and license model. The delivery group must use the same license edition (Standard, Premium, or Advanced) as the site. If configured, the delivery group consumes only the selected license. Though the selected license is fully consumed or has become invalid, the delivery group doesn’t fall back to the site license.

By default, the delivery group uses the site license.

When a delivery group license expires and is no longer valid, use a different license as prompted.

Note:

If you later configure a delivery group to use a different license, connected users consuming the current license might temporarily lose access to their desktops and applications.

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Multi-type licensing

June 16, 2022

Contributed by:

C R

June 16, 2022

Contributed by:

C R

Multi-type licensing

View and update the site-level entitlement

View and update a delivery group level entitlement

More information

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