| 主权项 |
1. A method of licensing and identification of a virtual network appliance in a virtualized environment, a representation of the virtual network appliance being received at a client computer over a network as a virtual machine (VM) image instance within the virtualized environment, the method comprising:
receiving, at a licensing server over the network from the client computer, a request for a license for the virtual network appliance, the request including identification information for the virtual network appliance, the identification information including one or more of a virtual media access control (MAC) address and a unique identifier for the VM image instance received at the client computer; extracting, at the licensing server, one or more of the virtual MAC address and the unique identifier for the VM image instance from the identification information included in the request; generating, at the licensing server, at least a VM identifier for the VM image instance based at least on one or more of the virtual MAC address and the unique identifier for the VM image instance; generating, at the licensing server, the license for the virtual network appliance, the license including license data, the generating of the license including embedding at least the VM identifier in the license data; and sending, from the licensing server over the network to the client computer, the license including the VM identifier embedded in the license data. |
