Hosting Vivado Design Edition Licenses on Solaris 10 ?

Question

Our previous Vivado Design Edition network licenses (v2014.12) were issued in Jan 2014 for a Solaris 8 HOSTID.
The legacy server on which these licenses are hosted is scheduled to be decommissioned this year, and I'm trying to rehost them to a (supported) Solaris 10 server on-site.
I'm finding, however, at the Xilinx licensing support web site that our (on-maintenance) Vivado Design Edition licenses are now listed as Activation type licenses, but Solaris 10 doesn't appear to be an available license server platform for Vivado Design Edition.
1) Is Certificate type licensing no longer available for Vivado Design Edition ?  We have other Certificate type licenses that need to be hosted on-site on our Solaris 10 server.
2) If Certificate type licensing is NOT available for Vivado Design Edition, can our licenses be hosted on VM Linux server off-site (in a corporate data center) ?
3) Do the site-based (Certificate type) IP licenses need to be hosted on the same server as the Vivado Design Edition licenses ?
My preference is to keep all the Xilinx licenses for the site together on the local Solaris 10 server.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi 
First of all, Solaris OS is an unsupported OS. Use supported OS mentioned in ug973.
See below for answers to your queries:
1) Is Certificate type licensing no longer available for Vivado Design Edition ?  We have other Certificate type licenses that need to be hosted on-site on our Solaris 10 server.
[Answer] Yes, Activation licenses are available starting from Vivado 2014.1. 
Note: Certificate licenses for Vivado are provided under specific considerations.
2) If Certificate type licensing is NOT available for Vivado Design Edition, can our licenses be hosted on VM Linux server off-site (in a corporate data center) ?
[Answer] Yes, you can rehost your activation license on VM. Again use a supported OS on VM for hosting activation licenses.
3) Do the site-based (Certificate type) IP licenses need to be hosted on the same server as the Vivado Design Edition licenses ?
[Answer] 1. You can host both IP certificate type and Vivado activation licenses on the same server. OR
                 2. You can also host IP certificate licenses on one machine and Vivado activation licenses on another machine.
Thanks,
Vinay