Can one PC host multiple floating servers?

Per the question (for different product codes of the same software).

We are meeting increasing resistance to our "no VMs" policy. You must be aware that many business users these days have Hyper-v enabled by default on both PC and server.

The only practical solution as I see it is for us to host their floating server, but us having one PC or even one VM per client is not a scalable solution.

Optimal would be a floating server that handled multiple users, whitelisted (perhaps by IP) to bind to a specific port.

Next optimal would be multiple instances of the server app per host PC, with external configuration routing a particular IP to a particular TCP port.

Way down the list is having to dedicate a VM to one client with (say) three seats.

I remember also that you've been promising "real soon now" hosted floating license servers for maybe 2 years. I've been looking at the change log and I'm not seeing it - so apologies if I missed something you already fixed.

>> "The only practical solution as I see it is for us to host their floating server, but us having one PC or even one VM per client is not a scalable solution."

This will be solved by us very soon. We're going to have a free tier where "1" allowed lease be TFS instance hosted on our infrastructure will be free. Meaning customers can setup the TFS instance on our site and they won't need to install anything. (Although if they would prefer install the TFS instance on their infrastructure that will always be an option).

This is coming ASAP.

Thanks for the response. We're currently thinking in terms of having the TFS hosted in some VM in the cloud, using Azure say. If you offered an equivalent service then we'd certainly look at that as well.

Can you confirm that it currently isn't possible to activate two licenses (instances of TFS) for the same product on one PC (or VM?). And do you have any intention to remove that limitation soon or make it configurable?

>> "Can you confirm that it currently isn't possible to activate two licenses (instances of TFS) for the same product on one PC (or VM?)."

Correct.

>> "And do you have any intention to remove that limitation soon or make it configurable?"

It's not about removing a limitation. It would be re-writing a ton of logic. And no, we have no plans on doing that.

Thanks for the responses.

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