![]() The licensing setup was also tedious to configure and took over a day to setup. Our biggest blocker was the licensing for two of the applications, each license was tied to the MAC address and machine name of the physical server. The customer wanted an automated and repeatable solution to rid themselves of various pain points in their current system. The software vendors had not even vetted their software for use in the cloud, but gave us approval to proceed.ĭesigning for the new cloud infrastructure we highlighted the technical blockers of migration their production system to the cloud. A lift and shift was a possible but would not enable the application nor the customer to fully embrace the capability of the cloud. I have recently been working on a customer project migrating their on premises physical server and its applications to Azure. It is a time consuming and there is nothing agile about this process. In my customer's use case, we had to reach out directly to the software vendor to re-install our application, request a new license and wait almost an entire day to provide the license file. This causes a slew of issues such as: replacing hardware in your servers, running multiple network cards (think redundancy), virtualizing your environment, or even just setting up a highly available configuration of your application. ![]() ![]() Many established software companies have tied their licensing to the MAC ADD of your server/computer. ![]()
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