#Sentinel pro parallel hardlock image how to#

I was using it to provide a single USB port to a server so that I could then install a USB to serial COM adapter and then attach a modem. I can vMotion the running VM to a different host and it is all fine. This works, works well and works reliably. I used USB anywhere as linked by TAC above.

If you value your sanity then I strongly suggest that you don't use USB directly from the host server as then you have the problem of VM being tied to physical machine. I've used USB ports with virtualised servers since ESX 3.0 (i.e.

#Sentinel pro parallel hardlock image how to#

I am NOT asking how to use one licensing dongle multiple times, that would not be legal. We have a dongle for each instance of the software. The software we use requires the hardware key at all times, unfortunately, there are no other licensing options for these applications (I asked specifically if we could just get a site license, but no.) So, Do beefy servers for Virtualization have 30 USB ports? If no, then what are my options. Out of those 13, 4 of them require more than one licensing dongle (for more than one application). More detail: we currently have 13 servers that runs licensed software that requires the dongle. The bigger question is, How can we utilize multiple keys at the same time for different machines if the Server is limited to only 4 USB ports?. how on Earth can we link these hardware keys to our virtual machine?Īnd im not asking about configurations, I can easily figure out how to assign a USB port/ device to a VM. These 'dongles' require the Sentinel HASP drivers in order for the system to fully recognize the license held on each dongle. The software in question requires a USB Dongle/ key for licensing. The biggest hurdle for us would be the Software Licensing for some of our software. While researching the requirements to make our production servers into Virtual Machines, I have ran into a wall.