License server in Virtual?

[cbenner]

Hello,

Background:  Last week after attempting to install Vault 2013 on our server.... said server decided life was no longer worth living and ended it all.  The 2013 install did not go, so we did a restore of everything on that server to a VM on another computer... just to hold us until our shiny new server arrives.

My question:  Our license server is stuck on the old, dead machine, and I've been told I need to generate a new license to get us up and running with Vault.  Will we have any problems loading this new license in a virtual environment?  I only need to get us a week, and then the new machine will be here and we'll transition to 2013, which has it's own license server on the disks.

[TravisNave · Accepted solution]

LMTOOLS will go on a VM no problem.  My only recommendation is to hard code your virtual MAC so that it does not randomly change and invalidate your license file.  Other than that, you shouldn't have any problems migrating your NLM to a new server.  You will need a new license file to do so, but beyond that, if you need any additional help, you know how to get ahold of me.

[cbenner]

Thanks Travis.... I may be back!

[cbenner]

Travis,

We (purely by accident) found the deceased server's MAC written on a post it note from 6 years ago, and were able to use this to get our license server back online.

Thanks for all of your help!

Chris

[TravisNave]

Excellent find!  Swing on back if you run into any other obstacles. 

[mnh00002]

Hi Guys- It looks like we ran into the same issue in our environment. We virtualized the physical licensing server and after doing so it had a new MAC address. Now the Autodesk 2007 clients (we're on an older version) will not authenticate with the licensing server. Everytihng else on the licensing server remained the same. If we go and change the MAC addresses on the VM back to what they were on the physical server, will the license start working again?

Thanks!

-Mike

[TravisNave]

Yes that is correct.  It is imperitive that if you are on a VM, you must hard-code your MAC address to prevent this from happening.  That should resolve your issue.

[mnh00002]

We changed the MAC addresses on the new VM to the ones from the physical server and now AutoDesk appears to be able to find the licensing server again.