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Virtual Gateway Subscriptions
Virtual Gateway is a virtual instance of headend gateway for SD-Branch. Classic Central supports licenses based on the bandwidth capacity for virtual gateways. All license assignments are undertaken by the virtual gateway orchestration app.
Classic Central supports VGW licenses that cater to a variety of requirements. The options include one, three, and five year periods and the bandwidth options are 500 Mbps, 2 Gbps Gigabits per second., and 4 Gbps capacity licenses.
The base SKUs available are: VGW-500M, VGW-2G, and VGW-4G Fourth Generation of Wireless Mobile Telecommunications Technology. See LTE.. The availability of SKUs is also dependent on the installation consuming the license.
The account maintains a pool of VGW licenses. Upon license expiry, or if the license pool has no licenses left, the license is unassigned from the account. When deployed without valid or paid licenses, four evaluation licenses of each base SKU Stock Keeping Unit. SKU refers to the product and service identification code for the products in the inventory. is allocated to every customer account. Each evaluation license has a validity of 90 days.
License consumption can be tracked in the or pages.
The list of licenses available against consumed licenses are also displayed during the deployment of a virtual gateway.
When the client capacity reaches the threshold:
- Classic Central triggers the alert.
- If the notification options for the alert is configured, Classic Central sends an email notification with a list HPE Aruba Networking virtual gateways that exceed the client capacity threshold. You can also configure alerts to trigger an incident using .
For licenses email notifications are sent out in 30 day intervals starting at 90th day before expiration and the last notification a day before the expiry of the license.
For licenses email notifications are sent out on the 30th day before expiration and a day before the expiry of the license.
Classic Central automatically assigns a valid subscription to a virtual gateway. When a subscription expires, Classic Central automatically assigns a valid subscription from the same subscription category.
For more information on available SKUs, contact your Sales Specialist.
