Citrix Systems, Inc.
Computer system providing virtual computing session license distribution features and related methods

Abstract:

A system may include a license publishing server and a plurality of licensing servers arranged in a cluster and configured to communicate with the license publishing server to obtain a given number of authorized licenses for virtual computing sessions associated with the cluster. The system may also include a plurality of virtualization servers configured to obtain authorized licenses from the plurality of licensing servers and run virtual computing sessions for client computing devices based upon the authorized licenses. The licensing servers may cooperate with one another to distribute licenses to the virtualization servers based upon a consensus protocol and the given number of authorized licenses associated with the cluster.