Inlite Frequently Asked Questions

Licensing ClearImage on VM and the Cloud instances system

ClearImage licenses are perpetual, and can be deployed on any Windows Virtual Machine instance, hosted on a physical computer or in the cloud.

License Activation

To activate ClearImage on a VM or a Cloud instance:

Connect to the instance via the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC)
Install the ClearImage PDK, which Inlite will e-mail to you after the purchase of the license.
Register the ClearImage certificate(s), also included in that e-mail.

Note: The use of ClearImage in production does NOT require an RDC session or the Internet access.

Licensing Multiple Instances

Each virtual machine instance requires its own registered ClearImage license.
Automatic provisioning (replication) is NOT supported, except as noted below.

To license multiple instances, replicated from the same image:

Create a TEMPLATE instance. Install ClearImage PDK. DO NOT register the certificate.
Replicate TEMPLATE instances to one or more WORKING instances.
Register the ClearImage certificate on each WORKING instance.

Scaling is supported by creating several registered WORKING instances, and using a Load Balancer to distribute requests to the several WORKING instances. Normally, each working instance can support many thousands of recognition requests per hour.

Amazon EC2 Licensing

Amazon Windows EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is fully supported.
Amazon ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) can be use with multiple pre-provisioned and licensed WORKING instances.
Not Supported: AWS Lambda, EC2 Auto Scaling, Linux EC2 .

Azure Licensing

Windows Virtual Machine is fully supported.
App Service (Web Apps and WebJob) is supported through Inlite's Azure Web Apps Subscription licenses. Contact Inlite sales for details.
Not supported: Cloud Services, Azure Function, VM Scale Sets