Sharing FME Engine on multiple FMEServer Installation

I don't think you can easily do that. And to be honest, it sounds like a major hassle.

What would the business rationale behind this be?

thank you for your answer. I understand of course if it is not possible, but I try to answer your question :

• On Safe side, I think it would be the same principle than sharing floating Desktop licence in an organisation. It means users need less licences for the same services, but it is already the case for FME Desktop.
• On our side, we face a bigger amount of administrators and users. For example, the administration of the server is getting more and more complex because it uses multiple applications, API... We face also security issue because I work for the army (multiple server depending on security access). What's more,several FME Server applications deal with billions of data (bathymetry) using sometimes an engine for hours. Other jobs are very fast : That's why sharing licences would optimise the use of these engines.

We think about multiple ways to deal with the bigger amount of FMEServer users in our organisation. Of course, If this one is not technicaly possible or not desired by Safe, we won't choose this one . :)

Thank a lot you both for the answer and for the links :) : "The bottleneck is almost always the number of available engines, not the number of cores" --> I totaly agree with you but there are other issues in our organisation that explain the questions about our current architecture (security; servor administration...). We try to think about multiple way. Indeed , the architecture described above is maybe not bussiness rational.