Zentitle Element Pools
The ability to license a set amount of resources across multiple nodes/users
What are Zentitle element pools?
Element pools let you license an aggregate amount of something — storage, throughput, managed devices — across multiple nodes that share the same entitlement. Each node checks out a portion of the pool dynamically at runtime.
Why element pools matter
Many modern products are clustered or distributed. Licensing each node individually is wasteful and doesn’t match how customers actually use the product. Element pools align pricing with real usage patterns.
How element pools work
The entitlement defines the aggregate limit; nodes check out and release shares at runtime.
- Define any attribute as a pool (e.g., max 100TB of storage)
- Individual nodes check out portions dynamically
- Total usage is capped at the pool limit, no matter how many nodes
- Works seamlessly with other Zentitle models (subscription, concurrent, etc.)
Who this video is for?
Product managers and architects of clustered or distributed software looking for licensing primitives that match their architecture.
Video transcript
Auto-generated from the video and lightly edited for readability.
Our element pool capability gives software vendors the ability to license an aggregate quantity of some amount of something. So let's take an example. So let's say I have a storage management application.
And I want to license an end customer to be able to manage, say, a hundred terabytes of storage across five individual nodes.
Right? And we may not know how much storage each individual node will be managing. Right? Is it twenty terabytes per node, or is one at forty, is one at ten, etc. So what element pools allow you to do is define an attribute of an entitlement of a license, with that storage amount. So you could say max storage, and make that a hundred terabytes.
And then at run time, each individual node in that cluster would activate a seat against that overall license.
And then they would check out from this element pool the quantity of storage that that particular node was handling. So perhaps node a would check out ten terabytes node B would check a thirty terabytes, etc.
And so the licensing will enforce that Those five nodes in aggregate never exceed the overall licensed hundred terabytes of storage. So this gives the vendor a lot of flexibility in terms of how they both manage individual instances, as well as entire clusters of nodes activated against that license.
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