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Deadline Cloud Redshift Licensing Workflow AWS

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#1

Hello,

we are currently in the process of setting up a customer managed fleet (as GPU ist no available on SMF) with houdini and redshift.

We got our ec2 instance to a point where all drivers are installed an redshift can be booted.

The last missing part is managing the licensing workflow of redshift.

We did follow this guide to setup an aws usage based licensing endpoint.

Unfortunately it does seem to offer support for redshift.

Are there any other options to supply a redshift license for our customer managed fleet?

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#2

+1 for this, I guess it would be difficult to use login licenses for RS on the cloud, and it’s not really scalable.

I did wonder if you could run DeadlineOriginal on a DeadlineCloud you could submit RS UBL jobs this way, but this is an incredible roundabout way of doing things!

#3

AWS seem to have a BYOL (Bring your own license) system:

It is also mentioned in the deadline cloud setup:

But under the service mangaged fleets. So I am not sure if it also works for customer managed fleets and how to set it up in general…

If anyone has some experience or other solutions i would love to hear them

#4

For a customer managed fleet you’d just make sure that when the AMI is started up it can check out a license from your license server. There’s all those extra steps for service managed fleets because the service managed fleet doesn’t run within your account.

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#5

Hey @Justin_B

yes that would work. The issue is redshift floating licesnes are only sold yearly. We would like to use a usage based licensing model.

In the meantime we found out this service exists for classic deadline:

As our deadline cloud setup is complete and the last missing part is how we license redshift we would like to know if we can somehow use the license forwarder that is mentioned here with the UBL we bought from the thinkbox marketplace.

https://docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/products/deadline/10.1/1_User%20Manual/manual/license-forwarder.html

It does not seem very straightforward tough as the license forwarder requires access to a deadline repository and database.

#6

That makes sense. There isn’t a way to use Deadline 10’s usage based licensing in Deadline Cloud. You’d have to use Deadline 10 instead if Redshift UBL is a must-have.

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#7

Thanks @Justin_B

then we will stop trying to hack it and waste time :slight_smile:

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