I’m trying to settle an argument with my colleague who manages our computer systems.
He believes using Windows 10 to serve licenses for Deadline (50 seats), Maya (also 50 licenses used during render time), Houdini, ToonBoom, ZBrush and a few others would be sufficient. In the past, my understanding was that any non-server version of Windows does not have the capacity to accommodate that many concurrent TCP/IP connections (in the rare case 50 or more “calls” would happen simultaneously).
Did something change or am I correct to insist on at least a server version of Windows for our license server?
I think ‘technically’ you can, the 20 connection limit is for file sharing and other windows features. Not sure if that holds up with an MS Audit or not.
If you’re hosting the repo on there you’ll struggle.
Thank you for your response! It has to be Windows only since that’s what the folks doing the admin are used to.
Maybe I’ve been wrong all this time – at some point in the past it was suggested that too many simultaneous calls could result in errors or licenses refused. I understand user limit can be a problem for file serving, but to me a TCP/IP call is just that, whether it’s persistent or momentary.