When you purchase Swarm, you receive a A license based on the contractually agreed amount of storage space you purchased for your clusterthe cluster is received when Swarm is purchased. The license.url parameter in your the node or cluster configuration file indicates the location of your the license file.
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ImportantSwarm licenses are based on raw usage, the total footprint on disk. Be aware that increasing Increasing the number of replicas or EC parity segments increases the footprint, which has the effect of decreasing the net space that your the license supports. |
To evaluate your licensing, Swarm does performs the following to evaluate the licensing:
- For non-CSN clusters,
Swarm starts with the default trial license, which is 2 TB per cluster for non-CSN clusters.
Swarm attempts to read the license file from the location specified by
By default, thelicense.url.The license file is
/caringo/license.txton the node's USB flash drive or in the configuration file on the web or FTP server by default.- If
Swarm uses the file specified by
is valid, Swarm uses it; if it is invalid, thelicense.urlif valid. The storage capacity is set to 0 if invalid.
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NoteIfSwarm uses the last valid license if Swarm fails to read the license specified by the file is on a web server that is temporarily unavailable) , Swarm uses the last valid license. |
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