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BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration
- 1.0.0
Overview: Licensing options
You can centrally manage BIG-IP® virtual edition (VE) licenses for a specific set of F5 offerings (for example, BIG-IP LTM® 25M, BIG-IP LTM 200G, and BIG-IP LTM 1G). When a device is no longer needed, you can revoke the license instance and assign it to another BIG-IP VE device. This flexibility keeps operating costs fixed, and allows for a variety of provisioning options. Pool licenses are purchased once, and you assign them to a number of concurrent BIG-IP VE devices, as defined by the license. These licenses do not expire.
About pool licenses
Pool licenses are purchased for a particular product offering for a fixed number of devices, but are not permanently tied to a specific device. As resource demands change, you can use BIG-IQ® Device to revoke and reassign those licenses to other BIG-IP® VE devices as required. Pool licenses do not expire.
Automatically activating a pool license
Manually activating a pool license
Manually activating offering licenses
Assigning a pool license to a BIG-IP VE
Revoking a pool license from a BIG-IP VE
- Log in to BIG-IQ® Cloud with the administrator user name and password.
- At the top of the screen, click Provisioning.
- On the Devices panel, expand the device group that contains the device for which you want to revoke a license by clicking the arrow next to it.
- Click the gear icon next to the device for which you want to revoke a license, and then click License Device.
- From the Licensing list, select Revoke a License.
- Click the Deploy button.