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Edge Licensing

Only Operators can enable the Edge Licensing and assign the licenses to a Partner user. If the Edge Licensing is not enabled for you, contact your Operator.

The Edge Licensing feature is activated by default.

To deactivate Edge Licensing, in the Operator portal, go to Orchestrator > System Properties , and set the value of the system property session.options.enableEdgeLicensing to False.

The Edge Licenses are available with the following components:

Table 1. Edge Licensing Support Matrix
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.

Apart from the above list, Arista offers a trial version of license with the following attributes:

Table 2. Edge Licensing Trial Version
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. In the Operator portal, select Services, and then from the left menu, select Edge Licensing.
    Note: Starting from the 5.4.0 release, Edge Image Management is renamed to Services.
    Figure 1. Edge Licensing Screen
  2. You can view the following options on this page:
    Table 3. Edge Licensing Option 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 be displayed in the table.
    Refresh Select this option to refresh the displayed list of licenses.

     

  3. Selecting the View link under the Partners assigned column, displays the Edge license details of the selected Partner.
  4. Selecting the View link under the Customers assigned column, displays the Edge license details of the selected Customer.

Manage Edge Licenses for Partners

An Operator can manage the Edge Licenses and assign them to Partners.

Following the below procedure to manage and assign Edge Licenses to existing partners. To assign Edge Licenses to new Partners, see Create New Partner.

  1. In the Operator portal, select Manage Partners.
  2. Select the link to a Partner name to navigate to the Partner portal.
  3. In the Partner portal, select Edge Management, and then from the left menu, select Edge Licensing.
    Figure 2. Manage Edge Licenses for Partners
  4. Select Manage Edge Licensing.
    Figure 3. Select and Assign Edge Licenses
  5. In the Select Edge Licenses window, choose the relevant licenses based on the Bandwidth, Term, Edition, and Region.
  6. Select Save.
    The selected licenses are displayed in the Edge Licensing window.
  7. Select Download Report to generate a report of the licenses along with the associated customers and Edges in a CSV format.

Manage Edge Licenses for Customers

An Operator can manage Edge Licenses and assign them to Customers.

  1. In the Operator portal, select Manage 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 4. Manage Edge Licenses for Customers
  4. Select Manage Edge Licensing.
    Figure 5. Select and Assign Edge Licenses
  5. In the Select Edge Licenses window, choose the relevant licenses based on the Bandwidth, Term, Edition, Region, and then move them to the Selected Edge Licenses pane.
    Note: Apart from the existing licenses, Arista offers a trial version of license with the Edition as POC. If you select a POC license, you cannot choose the other licenses.
  6. Select Save. The selected licenses are displayed in the Edge Licensing window.
    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 Report to generate a report of the licenses and the associated VeloCloud Edges in a CSV format.

When you create an Edge, you can choose and assign an Edge License from the drop-down list.

To 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, and then select the License in the Properties section of the Edge Overview page. You can also select the Edge, and then select Assign Edge License to assign the license.
  • To assign a license to multiple Edges, select the appropriate Edges, select Assign Edge License, and then select the License.