Swapping the DNS names - How does the Shared Services behaves

Question

Hi Essbase God's
I have one more situation here. I have four hosts runing on VM ware.
1 # host - prod server whsoe security setup is provisioned by a prod shared service host
2 # host - Dr server whsoe security setup is provisioned by a dr shared service host
I will be sync'ng DR cubes on daily basis with Prod host . Say My Prod Host is down.
How wud shared services behave if i do the below.
1. Bring donw the prod shared services on Prod shared services box
2. modify the DNS name of the DR host to Prod host ( here Dr will now acts as prod)
3. Birng up the prod shared services on Prod shared services box
I may be sounding dumb.
will i be abel to connect to prod host ( in real this is DR) and ask user to do activities.
Pls advice
MS

Answer 1

Hi,
You don't need the desktop. You can log in directly from the laptop to the remote desktop services server. This is a lot easier to manage, since there is only 1 place to manage instead of multiple. Of course, you will want to provide a couple of servers
because if you have 1 server and it goes down, you have nothing.
Visual studio is licensed per user. Yes, you can install it on the RDP server and all users could use it if they are part of the correct groups. But from a licensing point of view, you would be non compliant. It would be us to you to manage the users and
make sure that there are enough licenses for all users.
How, and if this applies to other programs depends on the licensing terms of those programs. Some software is per user. Some is per concurrent user, and some is per computer. You have to check this for each program you want to install on the computer.