Computer system providing virtual computing session license distribution features and related methods

A method comprising:

• communicating between a plurality of licensing servers arranged in a cluster and a license publishing server to obtain a given number of authorized licenses for virtual computing sessions associated with the cluster;
• in accordance with a consensus protocol,
• distributing the authorized licenses from the licensing server to a plurality of geographically distributed virtualization servers,
• reaching an agreement among the licensing servers regarding whether a number of authorized licenses in use across the virtualization servers has exceeded the given number of authorized licenses, and
• ceasing to distribute authorized licenses to the virtualization servers based upon an agreement that the number of authorized licenses in use across the licensing servers has exceeded the given number of authorized licenses;
• and
• running virtual computing sessions for client computing devices at the virtualization server based upon the authorized licenses.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for causing a licensing server to perform steps comprising:

• communicating with other licensing servers arranged in a cluster and a license publishing server to obtain a given number of authorized licenses from the license publishing server for virtual computing sessions associated with the cluster;
• in accordance with a consensus protocol,
• distributing the authorized licenses along with the other licensing servers to a plurality of geographically distributed virtualization servers,
• reaching an agreement with the other licensing servers regarding whether a number of authorized licenses in use across the virtualization servers has exceeded the given number of authorized licenses, and
• ceasing to distribute authorized licenses to the virtualization servers based upon an agreement that the number of authorized licenses in use across the licensing servers has exceeded the given number of authorized licenses.