About Velocity Management Suite Licenses

Each Velocity license file contains two critical authorization numbers for each management suite component it licenses:

• The number of management servers on the network that can run the management suite components (System Controller, Content Controller, or Content Accountant) for which the license was issued
• The total number of Excelerator cache devices that the management servers running on the network can manage

All of the license files with .lic extensions for all Velocity products can and should be installed on each management server.

The reason for this is that each server requires a locally installed license for each Velocity product it communicates with, including the Excelerator cache devices it manages on the network. A given management server will not recognize more Velocity product instances than it has licenses for.

You must have your licenses available for installation during the management suite installation process. Otherwise, the installation process will not continue beyond the request for a license file location.