Infoblox Rule

Pool licences are allocated up to the aggregate installed count and are lost on factory reset

Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited

Kind: Counting
Statement: NIOS documentation: dynamic licences can be allocated from a pool as long as the allocated count does not exceed the installed perpetual plus active non-perpetual count; restoring the appliance or a factory reset removes existing dynamic licences.
Applies when: Allocating or restoring dynamic licences
Applies to: vNIOS virtual appliances
Related metrics: NIOS dynamic (pool) licence
Related programs: Elastic Scaling with dynamic licences

Evidence 1

"When you restore or perform a factory reset operation, you will lose the existing dynamic licenses."

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