This page describes the process of surge or fallback licensing using Ansys Lumerical Enterprise and Elastic Licensing. See the following articles on Ansys Enterprise Licensing and Ansys Elastic Licensing for more information.
Requisites
- Ansys Enterprise License and Ansys Elastic License
- Lumerical 2022 R1.1 and newer
License configuration
- Configure Lumerical to obtain the Ansys Enterprise license on your license server.
Surge licensing
- Surge or fall-back licensing happens when you have configured Lumerical to obtain the license from your Ansys Enterprise license on your license server and Ansys Elastic license.
- When running Ansys Lumerical simulation it will fall back and check out the HPC license from Ansys Elastic Licensing when the Ansys HPC license is not available on your license server.
See also
How to obtain a floating license