Re-Use of VM license when deploying VM in Azure?

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Hello everyone

Likely a stupid question:

I have (at the moment two) VMs in Azure and I would like to re-deploy them - can I re-use the licenses?

Of course I am deleting the VMs beforehand, I am not sing the licenses several times - I am just not sure anymore if there is anything bound from said deployment to the license I bought and therefore I would need to do something special in order to use the same license on a newly deployed Azure-Fortigate-VM (which will re-use the license from a former VM)

Thanks

FortiGate

abarushkaAnswer

Staff

Hello,

License can be used only by single unit at single point of time. It is possible to load license file to new VM as long as old VM is shut down/deleted.

abarushkaAnswer

Staff

Hello,

License can be used only by single unit at single point of time. It is possible to load license file to new VM as long as old VM is shut down/deleted.

scheuriAuthor

Explorer III

Thank you very much for your reply.

That means I can re-use the same license on a new VM once the old VM with said license is shut down/deleted.

Much appreciated!

abarushka

Staff

Hello,

I would like to add that new VM should have the same number of vCPU or lower than the old VM. And in case you have a cluster I would shut down / delete the whole cluster before loading licenses to new cluster units to be on a safe side.

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