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Edge Licensing

Orchestrator provides different types of Licenses for the Edges. Partner users can manage and assign licenses to Enterprise customers.

Only Operators can activate the Edge Licensing feature and assign the licenses to a Partner user. If the Edge Licensing has not activated, contact your Operator.

The Edge licenses have the following available components:
Table 1. Edge License Components
Component Supported Attributes
Bandwidth 10M, 30M, 50M, 100M, 200M, 350M, 500M, 750M, 1G, 2G, 5G, 10G
Editions Standard, Enterprise, Premium
Region North America, Europe Middle East and Africa, Latin America, Asia Pacific
Term 12 months, 36 months, 60 months

An Operator can assign different types of Edge licenses from the 324 types of licenses available with various combinations.

Arista also offers a trial version of license with the following attributes:
Table 2. Trial License Attributes
Component Supported Attributes
Bandwidth 10 Gbps
Edition POC
Region North America, Europe Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America
Term 60 Months
Note: You can assign the POC license to a customer as a trial. When required, you can upgrade the license to any required Edition.

To access the Edge Licensing feature:

  1. Log into Orchestrator as a Partner. In the Partner portal, select Edge Management, then select Edge Licensing.
    Figure 1. Edge Licensing
  2. You can view the following options on this page:
    Table 3. Edge Licensing - Options and Descriptions
    Option Description
    Search Enter a term to search for a matching text across the table. You can select the advanced search option to use filters to narrow down the search results.
    Download Report Select this option to download a report of the licenses, associated customers, and Edges in a CSV format.
    Columns Select this option and select the columns to display in the table.
    Refresh Select this option to refresh the displayed list of licenses.

     

  3. Selecting View under the Partners assigned column, displays the Edge license details of the selected Partner.
  4. Selecting View under the Customers assigned column, displays the Edge license details of the selected Customer.
To manage Edge licensing for Customers, see Manage Edge Licenses for Customers.

To assign the Edge licenses to Customers, see Create a New Partner Customer.

Manage Edge Licenses for Customers

A Partner user can manage the Edge Licenses and assign them to Customers.
  1. Log into Orchestrator as a Partner and select Manage Partner Customers.
  2. Select the link to a customer name to navigate to the Enterprise portal.
  3. In the Enterprise portal, select Service Settings > Edge Licensing .
    Figure 2. Edge Licensing
  4. Select Manage Edge Licensing.
    Figure 3. Select Edge Licenses
  5. In the Select Edge Licenses window, select the relevant licenses based on the Bandwidth, Term, Edition, and Region then move them to the Selected Edge Licenses pane.
    Note: Arista also offers a trial version of license with the Edition as POC. If you select a POC license, you cannot select the other licenses.
  6. Select Save. The selected licenses display in Edge Licensing.
    Note: If you have selected the POC license, you can select Upgrade Edge License to upgrade the license to the next level. Choose Standard, Enterprise or Premium Edition from the list. You cannot downgrade a License type to the previous Edition.
  7. Select Download Report to generate a report of the licenses and the associated Edges in CSV format.
When you create an Edge, you can select and assign an Edge License from the list.
You can assign a license to an existing Edge:
  • In the SD-WAN service of the Enterprise portal, select Configure > Edges .
  • To assign license to each Edge, select the link to the Edge then select the License under the Properties area on the Edge Overview page. You can also select the Edge then select Assign Edge License to assign the license.
  • To assign a license to multiple Edges, select the appropriate Edges, select Assign Edge License, then select the license.