Managing SAP PowerDesigner licences in Cloud where Host ID changes

[SAPSupport]

Hello,

We are planning to move our SAP PowerDesigner installation from traditional On-Prem Datacentre to our Cloud hosted environment (IAAS on AWS Tenant).
We use Served licences. While looking at the instructions around re-hosting the PowerDesigner licences we have a query on how to handle the Host-Id.
In the new environment the Host-Id is dynamic and will change as we regularly refresh the instance/host- it would not be viable to rehost the licences everytime there is an update to the host.

Thank you

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[SAPSupport · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Please refer to KBA 3265599 - How to set up a SySAM licence server in AWS

The set up of a SySAM licence server in AWS is in principle not different than in a non AWS environment:
 - The recommendation for the HostID of the SySAM licence server is to use the Elastic Network Interface (ENI).
 - The ENI has a fixed, immutable MAC address which can be used as the Hostid of the SySAM licence server host.
 - Besides the ENI can be detached from one host instance and attached to a standby instance in case of failure while keeping the original hostid.

Kind regards,
SAP Support